RIPOFF RELIGION

By Patricia Backora

Put Christ on your credit card

Go out on a limb for the Lord
Be thou a faithful steward
Give much more than thou canst afford.

The Scriptures are elastic

Just stretch God’s truth a bit
Whip out that handy plastic
Faith always runs a risk.

Ignore uneasy feelings within

Don’t go against the flow
If you’ve got money throw it in
It’s time for suckers to sow.

Those big bandwagon slogans

That make rich preachers richer
Are they spun out of emotions
Or do they stack up with Scripture?

I WANT MY PIE RIGHT NOW, WITH ICE CREAM PILED ON TOP!

How hardly shall they that have riches enter the kingdom of God (Mark 10:23).
But woe unto you that are rich, for ye have received your consolation (Luke 6:24).
IF THE MAFIA CAN HAVE A CADILLAC, WHY CAN’T I?
Why can’t you have your own protection racket too? Who are your role models
anyway?
Having food and raiment (clothes) let us be therewith content (I Tim.6:8).

IF YOU WANT TO GIT BLESSED, DON’T EAT YOUR SEED, SOW IT TO MEET OUR
MINISTRY’S NEED!
Isaiah 65:22: They shall not build, and another (someone else) inhabit; they shall
not plant, and another (someone else) eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of
my people; and mine elect (chosen ones) shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

GOD HAS NATURAL LAWS OF SOWING AND REAPING. IF YOU WANT CORN, PLANT
CORN SEED. IF YOU WANT TO REAP MONEY, PLANT SOME MONEY SEED.
If you want corn to pop up on your property, wouldn’t you sow corn seed on your
OWN land? So whose yard do you think your lettuce will sprout up in?

IF YOU DON’T PAY YOUR TITHE, GOD WON’T REBUKE THE DEVOURER.
Isaiah 65:23: They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are
the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them (No mention of
tithing here).

TITHE TO THE SPIRITUAL LEVITES WHO FEED YOU!

New Covenant tithing is a grave dispensational error. Laws meant for the Nation of
Israel have been transplanted into the Church, and greedy churchmen have rewritten
the tithing law to profiteer from it. I’ll go into detail to show what a tangled mess
modern tithing is.
1. Jesus called tithing “a matter of the Law” (Matt.23:23). Tithing was part of the
Law of Moses, as you’ll discover at the end of Leviticus 27:30-34. Nowhere in that
passage is money listed as a tithable commodity. We Christians are NOT under the
Law of Moses anyway (Rom.6:14; Gal.3:24-25;5:18;). Galatians 5:4 teaches that
when you go back under the Law, you fall from grace (risk losing your salvation).
2. BUT ABRAHAM TITHED BEFORE THE LAW, SO THAT MEANS YOU HAVE TO TOO!
This desperate plea keeps the cash flowing. In Genesis Chapter 14, you’ll discover
several things about Abraham’s tithe that no dishonest preacher EVER brings up:
a. Abraham’s tithe was taken from the spoils of a war fought to rescue his nephew
Lot from the Kings of the Plain, who had raided Sodom and stolen its goods and
citizens. Abraham’s tithe “of all” (Gen. 14:20) did NOT include a tithe of his personal
estate or income. Hebrews 7:4 confirms that key point: Now consider how great this
man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils (Gr.
akrothinion, best of the booty).
b. Verse 14 tells us the SOURCE OF Abraham’s tithe, the very FIRST mention of
tithing in Scripture: degenerate Sodom and Gomorrah. If the preacher wants you to
imitate Abraham’s tithe, why not rescue goods stolen from a cathouse and present
them to the preacher?
c. Nowhere does it state that Abraham ever tithes again, or instructs his descendants
to tithe on their income.
d. Abraham also practiced circumcision, animal sacrifice, and, polygamy (see
Gen.21:4;22:13;25:6). Should we also follow Abraham’s example in these things?
3. GOD WON’T BLESS YOU UNLESS YOU TITHE! HE’LL SICK THE CURSE OF
MALACHI ON YOU!
Whoa, there! Who was the Book of Malachi addressed to in the first place?
Malachi 3:3 (Just five verses before the famous tithing passage) And he (God) shall
sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall purify THE SONS OF LEVI, and
purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness. Why should God all of a sudden shift His focus to ordinary pew-
warmers?

Lower-ranking Levites were responsible to bring in the best ten per cent of the
tithes they themselves received from the people, and give them to the priestly family
of Aaron (Num.18:25-28). The sons of Levi had failed to keep meat (food, not
money) in God’s House (Mal.3:8-10). It was job of the LEVITES to transport the
tithe of the tithe into the provision storehouses of the Temple after farmers and
herdsmen of Israel had delivered to them ten per cent of Israel’s agricultural output.
Ordinary Israelites were not permitted to come anywhere near the Tabernacle or its
furnishings, on pain of death (Numbers 18:22). II Samuel 6:6-8 relates how Uzzah,
a Levite, touched the Ark and died instantly. Today, preachers STILL play with fire
when they tamper with God’s Word to profit from it!
If ordinary Israelites weren’t even allowed to come near the Old Testament dwelling
place of God’s Presence, how on earth could they be the ones responsible for
“bringing all the tithes into the House of the Lord”, or get cursed for failure to do
something which wasn’t even their job?

Tithing enforces an unscriptural clergy-laity distinction in the Body of Christ, and

robs the New Testament believer of his position in Christ. There WAS a clergy-laity
division under the Old Covenant, but that was caused by sin. God had originally
planned that all Israel should be priests unto Him (Exodus 19:5-6). But a few
chapters later they threw a wild party around a golden calf, committing fornication
and gross idolatry (Exodus Chapter 32). As punishment, the Israelites lost their
national priesthood, and after that God chose Levi exclusively to serve as Israel’s
priests and Tabernacle caretakers. God even separated this tribe unto Himself from
the rest of the children of Israel (Numbers 8:14).
Whenever some religious person decided to improve on God’s way of doing things,
what was the result?
Leviticus 10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his
censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before
the LORD, WHICH HE COMMANDED THEM NOT.
VERSE 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died
before the LORD.
In Numbers chapter 16 God destroys a group of lower-ranking Levites who dare to
challenge Aaron for the top job of High Priest. They end up getting swallowed up
alive into hell (verses 30-33). In verse 35 the Lord rains fire on imposters who
dared to offer up unauthorized incense. In verse 40 God clearly says that nobody
who is not descended from Aaron is permitted to draw near to offer incense unto
Him. The ordinary people COULD NOT have taken tithes into the Temple
storehouses either! The real miracle is not that most people don’t become
millionaires from tithing, but that modern preachers aren’t immediately judged by
God for twisting His Word for sordid gain!

Modern preachers boast of being spiritual Levites, but they could set their sights
higher. Not all members of the Tribe of Levi belonged to the priesthood.
In Numbers Chapter 17 God confirms that He has chosen the line of Aaron out of all
the Tribe of Levi to perform the office of the priesthood. All other families of Levi
must share their tithes with them. But Aaron’s family did NOT tithe.
Nehemiah 10:38: And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, WHEN
THE LEVITES TAKE TITHES: AND THE LEVITES SHALL BRING UP THE TITHE OF THE
TITHES INTO THE HOUSE OF OUR GOD, TO THE CHAMBERS, UNTO THE TREASURE
HOUSE (Heb. owtsar, storehouse, or garner).****Notice, it was the LEVITES, not the
other tribes of Israel, who brought in that particular tithe that went into the Temple
storehouse.

If preachers are so anxious to claim the office of “spiritual Levites”, which Levites do
they mean? The priestly line of Aaron, or the lower-ranking Levites held guilty by
God of failing to bring food into the storehouse of God, to supply the needs of
officiating priests working their assigned shifts in the Temple?

What is the REAL curse of Malachi, and who exactly is it aimed at? The fisherman?
The potter? The sandalmaker? The widow with barely two mites to scrape together?
Malachi 2:1 And now, O YE PRIESTS, this commandment is for YOU.
VERSE 2 If ye will not hear, and ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my
name, saith the LORD of Hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse
your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Continue reading to the end of verse 9 in this passage, and you will see that God is
rebuking the Levites, not the people. God is here concerned with the gross sins of
Levi (verse 4) with whom he had a special covenant. It is the priests who have
caused all Israel to stumble, not the ordinary Israelite!

Under the New Covenant, the entire Body of Christ is part of God’s priesthood of all
believers (I Pet.2:5,9; Rev.5:10). The Old Covenant priesthood did not pay any
tithes. No one would have dared threaten those priests with the loss of God’s favor
for failure to pay unscriptural money tithes, either! Tithing is a denial of your
personal priesthood in Christ. Far from being an act of faith, it is a shameful token
of surrender to men who dare to place themselves in the position of Christ Jesus, the
only High Priest of the New Covenant. Tithing places you back under the curse of
the law, because if you pledge to keep one part of the Law, you must keep it ALL!
(Gal.3:10). Besides, if you had lived under the Old Covenant and tried to pay your
tithe with a fifty-dollar bill, it would have been counted as sin because tithes on
salaries and wages were never commanded. And what about the third-year tithes
for widows and orphans (Deut.14:28-29)? Not to mention regular animal sacrifices,
drink offerings, and periodic pigeon offerings for women. Why haven’t these laws
also been transferred over to our dispensation of grace by greedy preachers? Maybe
they figure a pigeon could be caught free of charge. So they wouldn’t make money
off pigeon offerings anyway, ha!

Seminary-trained preachers KNOW they’re pulling your leg with lies and resorting to
emotional bullying to enforce an illegitimate tithe under false pretences. The Body of
Christ is being violated both financially and spiritually by these charlatans!

IF YOU DON’T GIVE TILL IT HURTS, GOD WON’T HEAR OR ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS.
Isaiah 65:24: And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
No mention in those verses about having to pay the preacher first!

GIVE TILL IT HURTS.

Hurts who? I guarantee, if it was the preacher who felt the pain, he’d sing a
different tune. It’s easy to be generous with other people’s pain.
THE GREATER THE SACRIFICE THE GREATER THE BLESSING.
But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye
would not have condemned the guiltless (Matt.12:7).

GOD’S DONE ALL HE’S GOING TO DO ABOUT THE DEVIL TILL JESUS COMES BACK,
SO IT’S UP TO YOU. SATAN IS AFRAID OF WHAT YOU’RE ABOUT TO DO! GET THOSE
CHECKBOOKS OUT NOW AND MAKE A SPECIAL DEFEAT THE DEVIL DONATION!
Romans 16:20: And the God of peace shall bruise satan under your feet shortly (no
mention of money).
If Jesus’ victory on Calvary isn’t enough to scare the devil, I doubt a few dollars will
do the trick.

IT’S TIME TO PUT GOD TO THE TEST.

Thou shalt not tempt (put to the test) the Lord thy God (Matt.4:7).

MAKE A VOW OF FAITH RIGHT NOW!

Better it is that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay
(Eccl.5:5).
Matthew 5:33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou
shalt not forswear (perjure) thyself; but shall perform unto the Lord thine oaths
(vows).
VERSE 34 But I say unto you, Swear (vow) not at all; neither by heaven; for it is
God’s throne:
VERSE 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the
city of the great King.
VERSE 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head; for thou canst not make one hair
white or black.
VERSE 37 But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for WHATSOEVER IS
MORE THAN THESE COMETH OF EVIL.

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for
the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee, and it would be a sin in thee
(Deut.23:21).

Notice, God places responsibility for fulfilling the vow on YOU, not on the preacher
who conned you into making it! And if you don’t pay it, God will count it as a SIN! If
you’ve fallen into this trap, there’s still hope. In Matthew 6:12 Jesus taught His
disciples to pray: Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. God is able and
willing to wipe your slate clean and give you the grace not to fall into the same trap
again!

In Deuteronomy 23:22 God clearly states it is NOT a sin to forbear (refrain from)
making a vow. God does NOT say forbearing to make a vow is a sign of weak faith!

DON’T MISS THE STIRRING OF THE WATERS! THIS ANOINTING WILL SOON PASS,
SO SOW A SEED FOR THAT MIRACLE YOU NEED FROM THE LORD! DON’T LET THIS
SPECIAL SEASON OF ANOINTING EXPIRE BEFORE YOU GET DELIVERED OUT OF
YOUR PROBLEM! WHIP OUT THAT CHECKBOOK RIGHT NOW!
Psalms 46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (no
expiration date on this ancient coupon!).
And as for missing the stirring of the H2O, who did Jesus heal? The one who
plunged into the Pool of Siloam first, or the man who never reached the water?
(see John 5:2-9).
BORROW THE RENT MONEY IF YOU MUST! GOD WILL GIVE IT BACK IN PLENTY OF
TIME, AND YOU WILL HAVE EXTRA TO MEET OTHER NEEDS.
That pushy preacher just might persuade you to ignore God’s inner caution that this
guy might be a con artist. But hey, look at it this way: Even if you send the
preacher money for yet another mansion and God decides not to meet the preacher’s
deadline, there’s always a park bench to crash on.

The Apostle Paul was a renter (Acts 28:30). If you really believe Paul taught the
saints to live responsibly, do you think Paul would have played Russian Roulette
with HIS rent money to help televangelists purchase more Porsches and pink wigs?
Besides, what if that old Scrooge landlord won’t give your seed extra time to sprout
up, even when you plead with him that you mailed off his rent money for “the Lord’s”
work? What if you don’t know how pitch a tent, and the only showers of blessing
you get soak your sleeping bag?

Do you think Brother Bigwig on TV would let you borrow one of his twelve mansions
if you didn’t get your big windfall in time? Don’t bank on it!

BORROW ON YOUR CREDIT CARD IF YOU MUST, BUT DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR
MIRACLE!
The borrower is servant (slave) to the lender (Prov.22:7b).
God’s people have been set free by the Cross of Christ. What does a vow do to your
soul?
Numbers 30:4: And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath
BOUND HER SOUL….(you can read the entire passage yourself)
Where will that rich preacher be when the wolf comes baying at your door, or some
collection agency pesters you on the phone which is about to be cut off? Why, the
preacher won’t worry about your bills. He’s out spending your money!
Talk about letting others use you! Brother Judas Jet Chariot doesn’t mind selling you
into slavery (to a debt collection agency) and chaining you to a vow to finance his
flights to Fantasy Land! No sweat off his back if you risk the judgment of God by
putting yourself back under the curse of broken law! But hey, isn’t an extra horse
ranch or pleasure jet worth selling God’s children back into bondage to satan?

POUR ON MORE GUILT BY ABUSING GOD’S FREE GIFT FOR SELFISH GAIN!!!! This
abomination has no equal! The lowest of the low resort to this! Judas would roll over
in his grave!
GOD GAVE HIS VERY BEST AT CALVARY, SO IF YOU DON’T GIVE YOUR BEST
(MONEY, WHAT ELSE?) YOU DON’T LOVE JESUS VERY MUCH. SO IF YOU AREN’T
“PLANTING SEED”, DON’T GO CRYING TO GOD WHEN YOU GET SICK OR GET
FIRED. YOU’VE GOT NO RIGHT TO GRIPE IF THINGS DON’T GO YOUR WAY! SERVES
YOU RIGHT, YOU GREEDY GOD-ROBBER! IF YOU TRULY WERE THANKFUL FOR
JESUS’ DEATH ON THE CROSS, YOU’D GIVE TILL IT HURTS.

I Pet.1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things,
as silver and gold, from your vain (worthless) conversation (way of life) received by
tradition from your fathers;
VERSE 19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and
without spot.
No mention of having to shell out cash to get redemption, or to keep it!
Paul said: I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel (Acts 20:33).
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DON’T MISS GOD’S TIMING! WHAT THOU DOEST, DO QUICKLY!
Who did Jesus tell to act quickly? Judas, the crumb who betrayed Jesus and sold
Him for 30 pieces of silver (John 13:27). Today’s televangelists sell Jesus for a
whole lot more. Even Christ’s blood Atonement is being used to shame people into
emptying their wallets, making crazy vows and getting into debt!

NAME-IT-AND-CLAIM-IT- AND BLAB-IT-AND-GRAB-IT

Luke 12:15 Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not
in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

JUST BELIEVE AND YOU’LL RECEIVE

The devils also believe, and tremble (James 2:19b).
Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your
lusts (James 4:3).

I actually saw some rich preacher do this:

WHAT YOU CONFESS IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM TAKES TIME TO BE MANIFESTED
OUTWARDLY. THERE IS ALWAYS TRAVAIL BEFORE BIRTH. SO ACT OUT YOUR
FAITH! GRAB YOUR STOMACH AND GROAN IN THE EXPECTATION OF CHILDBIRTH.
COMMAND THAT MONEY YOU VISUALIZE BY FAITH TO BE BIRTHED INTO THE
VISIBLE REALM.

Sounds like the preacher is scraping the bottom of his bag of tricks. If his private jet
crash-landed out in the middle of nowhere and he got hungry, what would he do?
Would he count his contractions and shout: Hamburgers, come out into the visible
realm and feed me! How would your Travailing Salvation Showman bring forth his
newborn burgers? Would he need an obstetrician to deliver his sack of Big Macs?
Would he need a C section, like Arnold Schwarzenegger had in Mr. Mom?

Here’s one for all those worldly windbags scaring tithes out of God’s people: Isaiah
26:18: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought
forth wind; we have not wrought (done) any deliverance in the earth; neither have
the inhabitants of the world fallen.

DON’T YOU DARE ENTER GOD’S PRESENCE WITHOUT AN OFFERING!

Saints, we’re ALREADY in God’s Presence! Believers are joined to Christ as ONE
SPIRIT (I Cor.6:17). How much closer to God do you think you can get than that?
Does God move out if we fail to pay our “tithe rent” to some flashy preacher on TV,
an imposter whose denim Levi’s can claim more kinship to Levi than he can! Christ
dwells in our hearts BY FAITH (Eph.3:17), and our body IS the Temple of the Living
God (II Cor.6:16). How do you tithe to God’s New Covenant Temple? Swallow a fifty-
dollar bill?

Hebrews 5:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the
heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession (no mention of paying
admission to the deacon).
VERSE 16 Let us therefore come BOLDLY unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Greedy preachers dare to make the One Way into God’s Presence a toll road! Shame
on them! What greater spiritual sin against the Body of Christ can they commit!

AS OUR LOVE GIFT TO YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION OF $2000 OR MORE, WE’LL
SEND YOU A PRECIOUS HEIRLOOM YOU CAN KEEP FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO
CHERISH AS A PERPETUAL TESTIMONY TO YOUR FAITH. SPECIALLY MINTED OF 24K
GOLD, THIS VICTOR’S MEDALION OF FAITH IS EMBOSSED WITH PURE SILVER, A
PERPETUAL REMINDER OF YOUR TRIED AND TRUE FAITH. ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER
OF THESE VICTOR’S MEDALLIONS WILL BE MINTED (Thank heavens!). REMEMBER
THE WIDOW WHO SACRIFICED HER ALL TO MEET GOD’S NEED!

Funny how the minimum acceptable contribution, the widow’s mite, keeps on
getting bigger and bigger. That’s just inflation, I guess. I wonder where these
“precious heirlooms” of “purest gold” are churned out, and how much the third-world
slaves who make them get paid? Are they “heroes of faith” too?

And what about boasting in our own good works? Isn’t showing off a “precious
heirloom” you got for pampering the preacher a form of boasting? I don’t think God
approves of us boasting of works peformed to earn His favor (Eph.2:9). And aren’t
we supposed to have our eye on a HEAVENLY reward, instead of a corruptible one (I
Cor.9:25)?

As for God needing our cash, that sounds a bit fishy. I was under the impression that
the streets of Glory were solid gold (Rev.21:21). What about God’s big cattle
spreads? (Psalms 50:10). The poorest “faith partners” can’t even afford to feed a
cat. And in verse 12, didn’t God plainly say that if He were hungry, He wouldn’t even
tell us, because everything ALREADY belongs to him? God can rustle up a T-bone
steak anytime He feels like it!

DON’T QUESTION “THE LORD”, JUST LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BLESSING STREAM.
I doubt the Lord of heaven is behind all the craziness happening in meetings where
victory videos replace the written Word of God . More likely, it’s the poodle-permed
lord of the loot who is raining down the gold dust and angel feathers.
Prove (test) all things. Hold fast to that which is good (I Thes.5:21).
The spirit of the prophet is subject to the prophets (I Cor.14:32).
VERSE 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of
the saints.

JUST KEEP ON SINGING, SAINTS, TILL GOD’S POWER COME DOWN!

That is just another form of fleshly self-effort, though it seems oh, so spiritual. I’ve
been in services where the crowd psychs itself up into happy-clappy hysteria, singing
the same chorus over and over, swaying and jumping. But there would be no lasting
fruit from their exertions. After the service, everyone would yak about sports or the
weather. Even praise can be staged to earn God’s blessings. There are times people
should be silent in God’s Presence (Habakkuk 2:20; Zech.2:13).

Packing the service with exciting music and prosperity formulas draws paying
crowds, but it doesn’t necessarily bring conviction to sinful hearts in need of a
Savior. In Acts 2:14-36 Peter preached a simple, short sermon and he didn’t even
give an altar call. Yet people were “pricked in their hearts” by the Holy Ghost and
they asked what they needed to do to be saved (Acts 2:37-41). There is no record
of Peter “warming up the crowd” with special music, no offering taken, no invitational
hymn, not even an altar call. It was entirely by the sovereign grace and mercy of
God that souls came to Christ.

SWEET SUSIE WILL KEEP ON SINGIN’ TILL THAT TOTE BOARD HITS ONE MILLION!
Amos 5:23 Take away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the
melody of thy viols.
VERSE 24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty
stream.
I suspect God is far more interested in purity of motive than fine musicianship.

Preachers KNOW they are poor, blind, miserable, and naked spiritually (Rev.3:17).
They KNOW they serve money instead of God, and they could never in a thousand
years get the long-lasting results humble Simon Peter got in his own ministry. The
apostle Peter fished for men. Peter had no gold or silver, but he was able to get
people healed (Acts 3:1-11). Fishers for funds have to resort to talent shows and
sensational new doctrines to keep the crowd fired up with enthusiasm to give.

Brother Loveloot might get an awestruck “reverent” look on his face and say, softly
and tenderly:
GOD SPOKE TO ME THAT THERE ARE TEN PEOPLE IN THIS AUDITORIUM WHO CAN
GIVE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS APIECE. COULD YOU BE ONE OF THEM?
This is an appeal to people’s pride: Who will be among God’s chosen few of faith,
more spiritual than all the selfish schmucks who hang onto their rent money?

With a rich, resounding voice the preacher might say:

THE SPIRIT OF GOD SPOKE TO ME AND SAID HE’D BLESS YOUR SEED, SO GET UP
AND MEET GOD’S NEED RIGHT NOW! GIVE YOUR BIGGEST BILL TO GOD! OR
BETTER YET, MAKE A STANDING DONATION BY CREDIT CARD!

Who’s going to RUSH my biggest bill up to God? Gabriel? Does God need filthy lucre
to renovate His rainbows in heaven? How did God ever manage to create the earth
before religion discovered Discover Card? Funny, God hasn’t spoken to ME about
donating MY bus fare to buy more pink wigs and gold-plated fixtures!

It’s bad enough the preacher will pressure people with guilt, fear, pride or greed to
empty their pockets. It’s bad enough he’ll get them to deny their own priesthood in
Christ by reviving (and reinventing to suit themselves) the Old Testament practice of
tithing to men. But using the Blessed Holy Spirit to fill their coffers is playing with the
devil’s WMD, just like a bird break-dancing on a live wire!
Ananias and Sapphira paid a terrible price for playing games with the Spirit of God
(see Acts 5:1-11). How easily people forget!

FILL OUT THAT PLEDGE CARD RIGHT NOW!

Jesus wasn’t too keen on making vows. Did Jesus really commission His disciples to
go into all the world and get people to sign pledge cards?

SEND THAT MONEY IN, FOLKS, AND THE LORD’LL BLESS YA REAL GOOD!
NOT ONE sermon have I ever heard preached on this little gem:
He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich
shall surely come to want (extreme poverty).
All I can say is that verse never fails to work, and if you want to avoid unnecessary
heartache you won’t buy Brother Bigwig any more antiques or mansions.

DON’T QUESTION THE NEW THING “GOD” IS DOING. TRUST YOUR SHEPHERDS.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind
lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Luke 17:1 It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through
whom they come!
VERSE 2 It were better for him that a millstone were tied about his neck, and he cast
into the sea, than that he should offend (cause to stumble) one of these little ones.

IF YOU’VE BEEN EATING OUR SPIRITUAL FOOD WITHOUT SUPPORTING THIS FAITH
MINISTRY, YOU’RE SINNING AGAINST THE LORD!
Isaiah 55:1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, AND HE THAT
HATH NO MONEY; come ye buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk WITHOUT
MONEY AND WITHOUT PRICE.
VERSE 2 asks: Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread?
How many horse ranches, wine cabinets, sun beds, diamonds and Ferraris does that
TV preacher really need before he proves to the world he’s a child of the King?

SAINTS, IT’S TIME TO INVEST IN GOLD BEFORE THE TRIBULATION HITS. GOD
WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO DRIVE THE BEST CAR AND WEAR THE FINEST CLOTHES.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white
raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not
appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see (Rev.3:18).

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO BE PART OF THIS MOVE OF “GOD”, THAT DOOR SWINGS
BOTH WAYS. GOOD RIDDANCE! GOD DON’T NEED YOU ANYWAY!
Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do
the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick
out of his place, except thou repent.
Revelation 18:4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,
my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her
plagues.

Money-hungry preacher, why are so many leaving your flock?

Because with lies ye have made the heart of My people sad, whom I have not made
sad (Ezek.13:22a).