Feds Need to Cage Every Crooked Evangelist Going
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (03/14/08)
Jesus said He had not a place to lay His head.
Jesus never taught His disciples to be wealthy. He never directed them to the money. In fact, It was money-hungry Judas who did Him in.
Jesus sent out His workers two-by-two without wallet, without suitcase, without accommodations arrangements. He sent them forth with the gospel only.
Jesus died a pauper. He told friend John to care for His mother.
Jesus’ own brothers turned against him. When he went to his hometown up in northern Israel, they did not respect Him. In fact, they talked against His ministry.
Jesus would never sanction what today’s evangelists—especially those on TV—are saying and doing. The ones who are crooked should be fined, jailed, whatever it takes to break their selfish spirits so that they can find their souls in Jesus.
These televangelists in particular who are preaching that we can be wealthy by sending them our money, we can be healed of every disease because healing is in the atonement, and going after whatever hangs their chandeliers need to be strung up.
These are Publicans and sinners of the most blatant worldly wickedness. They are evil. They are not of Jesus, obviously not when reading Jesus’ teaching in the Gospels. Take His lifestyle and put it up alongside today’s evangelist frauds.
They all know better. Most them started out poor, went to some Bible College and had to scrape to pay the tuition. They know where they came from.
Now they have jets, several mansions, condos, wardrobes multiple and you fill in the rest of the blasphemous blanks.
These people spout out the Scripture verses in their sleep. They weep over the cancer-ridden who call into their stations. They have pictures of Jesus hanging on the walls and Bibles strewn about.
They can yell like an old-time campmeeting preacher. They can get teary-eyed over their supposed orphanages in the Orient and their supposed helping the downtrodden in Haiti.
What showmen / women they are.
But don’t forget these are the very ones who will wail at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Their fakery will be exposed when they die. Their last breath will face them before the penniless One, the Savior who promised grace to the repentant. But nowhere can you find in the Bible His promise that His children will be rich and healthy till death.
Nowhere.
The feds need to corral these liars and make them pay up now—pay up in some way that’s legal, whether jail time or whatever it takes. They are a shame to the biblical call.
Further, they are a total embarrassment to the real Christians who are living properly what Jesus asks of His grace children. The fakes are just that—an embarrassment for the frauds have stolen our Savior. They have stolen our biblical language of salvation by faith alone. They have robbed us of our gospel tidings.
Feds, rake them all in, every one of them.
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