New Video, Comments & The 14th Prosperity Text of the Day

I have posted this video before but I came across an updated version that someone did. I think this video is amazingly powerful and true.

With that said a few weeks ago I had a conversation with a good friend who told me that his pastor had seen this video and was quite upset about it. From my understanding it was because Piper asks the question "I don't know how you feel about the prosperity gospel?" He then states his feelings as HATRED.
I was left to ponder... is that wrong that Piper feels hatred toward a false gospel? I don't think so!
Whether it is or not I do think there is a Godly anger that many in the body have lost touch of. It seems in the church today we want to focus only on the love of God and forget about the anger and wrath he has towards us and our sin! That's the whole reason Easter is so great isn't it. God's wrath and justice had to be met because of our wickedness, so God sent God the Son to take away the just wrath we deserved and be our ransom. We lose that today when we focus only on the love of God.

We saw godly anger in the temple in John 2:12-19 where Jesus found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, "Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade." His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."
In Matthew and Marks account of this event Jesus says they have made His house a "den of robbers". Those are strong words!

I can see it being offensive if you don't believe the prosperity message is a false, deceptive, manipulative, idolatrous, man centered, western, affluent, wicked, evil, unbiblical teaching.

Regardless of whether it is right or wrong to have hatred towards a false gospel the rest of the video is powerful and true and begs the question.... If we lost it all....our family...our money...our house....our car....our reputation....would Christ be enough for us? I hope he would.

Pastor....Will your congregation bail on Christ when hard times come because you have taught them that if they become a Christian all will go well for them, and they will live in plenty?

No matter how much we CLAIM our health and wealth it will eventually all pass away from our grip. Either with age, disease or accident! Be positive all you want and claim what you will but know this....we will not live here forever.

Is death really gain to us as it was to the Apostle Paul or is our unbelief so great that instead of living to Christ in this life we delude ourselves into thinking Christ is about our cars, houses, things while 3 billion unreached people have no gospel witness.

It amazes me that many cannot see the deception in the teachings of health/wealth preachers as they use deceptive out of context texts in nearly every message, yet these same people get hung up on the word "hatred".

One wonders how they may have responded as Christ kicked over tables and whipped the animals in the temple that had become a den of thieves?

So with that said here is the 14th Prosperity Text of the Day. I have yet to hear from one critic who will Biblically explain to me how these texts fit into the theology of a prosperity gospel worldview.

James 5:1-3

Misuse of Riches

1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.

2 Your riches have rotted and your garments have become moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and your silver have rusted; and their rust will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have stored up your treasure!