1st Timothy 6:17-19, “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
I love this precious passage of Scripture! What makes the Holy Bible so precious to the reader is one's faith. Most people have no faith in the Bible. I've met countless people during my lifetime who foolishly think that men wrote the Bible to control the masses. Dear friend, if men could write the Bible they wouldn't, and if they would they couldn't! Humanity has never written a book that even comes close to the supernatural manner in which the Holy Bible was given to mankind, piece by piece, approximately 40 different writers, spanning a time period of 1,500 years. No book ever written has been produced, nor could be, in such a bizarre manner! God did this on purpose, so that all skepticism could be eradicated for the honest seeking soul.
If there is one thing that can be said about rich people, it is that they are high-minded. James 2:6, “But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?” James 5:1, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.“ Proverbs 18:23, “The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.” It is always the wealthy people who cause trouble in the churches. I heard Pastor Jack Hyles say in a sermon that all across America churches are being destroyed by high-society type women! Ain't it so! Rich people are so spoiled, used to getting their way, and they don't like for some snot-nosed Bible-believing preacher to preach against their sins.
All across America, businessman are destroying churches! Dr. Hyles said that too, and he is so right! The love of money destroys Bible colleges, corrupting them, compelling them to dip their sails in sinful compromise to lure in more students. And then those corrupted colleges send out their graduates to corrupt thousands of churches. That is sadly what has happened to the apostate Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, which is now a cesspool of Lordship Salvation, fake Bible revisions, Wrong Repentance and bullying of anybody who doesn't bid Godspeed to their damnable heresies! 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
The United States Is A Wealthy Nation, Yet So Poor
Our text passage warns the rich people of this world not to be high-minded. If you live in the United States today, or Guam and other U.S. territories, you are wealthy! Illegal immigrants are dying from suffocation, and lack of food and water, left in shipping containers lost in transport. Semi-trailers full of dead bodies are being discovered abandoned in Wal-Mart parking lots in the United States. These poor souls were simply trying to get smuggled into the United States, so they can have what we all have... OPPORTUNITY! Compared to other countries, the United States treats their people bad! Yet, just about anyone can survive in America if he or she is willing to work for it!
OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE!
What do you see in the letters above? Nearly everyone pessimistically sees, “Opportunity is no where!” But it actually says to the optimist, “Opportunity is now here!” It all depends how we look at things. Boy, I wish you could grasp this truth dear reader. I receive thousands of emails each year at my website ministry. I receive countless emails from professed Christians who are doom and gloom about life, miserable and down about everything. It is immediately clear to me that they don't have a close walk with God. I already know that they very likely don't go to church anywhere. They are focusing on all the wrong things. What saith the Scripture? Colossians 3:1-2, “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” It is entirely a matter of faith dear friend.
The Bible means so much to me, because of my faith that God is real, and the King James Bible is 100% inspired and preserved by God for our generation. I thank God that I don't languish in searching though a dozen different Bible revisions, like Marty Herron (senior pastor of the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam from 1999 to 2018) foolishly does, trying to find the truth. You won't find the truth that way, you'll just find utter confusion...
We are at spiritual war ladies and gentleman! The Devil long ago crept into the churches, and now he is today in charge of them! The Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is an accursed cult, controlled by rich people who trust in uncertain riches. They are effectively a satellite ministry of Bob Jones University (BJU) in Greenville, South Carolina, hiring BJU graduates, and sending their Harvest Baptist Academy graduates back to BJU. It's a viscous money-making cycle, rubbing each other's backs, sharing positions as board members, spitting on the cause of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Folks, the Bible teaches not to trust in uncertain riches. So many people place the highest value upon temporal things. When is the last time you jumped up and down and shouted in joy that your name is written in Heaven? I rejoice all the time that I am a child of God. Do you realize that 99% of this world is going to burn in Hell for all eternity without end? I do not know the exact percentage, but I don't see many truly born-again Christians in this world. Unsaved Roman Catholics are NOT Christians! There are an estimated 1,600,000,000 Catholics in the world. There is no such thing as a Catholic Christian! It is possible for a Christian to attend a Catholic church, but if someone is a faithful Catholic, adhering to all the Seven Sacraments of their cult as their hope for Heaven, they are going to Hell forever!!! I say that with sadness, because like God, I desire for all people to get saved (2nd Peter 3:9).
What are you trusting in friend? Bill Gates is filthy rich, and his ungodly wife (soon to be divorced). Bill Gates has a staggering net worth of $125,500,000,000. Tragically, Gates went from being an agnostic (unsure of what he believes), to accepting his wife's heathen Catholic faith, neither of which produces the new birth, meaning they are not Christians. Only a born-again person is a true Bible Christians. John 3:7, “Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” John 1:12-13, “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” You cannot buy the stairway to Heaven! The rock band Led Zeppelin had it all wrong!
The Gift Of Eternal Life Is 100% Free, By Simple Childlike Faith
You cannot earn or merit Heaven. You cannot get lucky and get their by happenstance. No Catholic priest can absolve your sins. I heard “Father John Corapi” as he is called, a famous TV Catholic priest, boast that he absolved his own biological father's sins before he died. Sadly, that means his father went straight to Hell forever! I didn't say that, the Bible does! YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN!!! I hate the Catholic church, but I love Catholic people. They have been deceived by the Devil, offered a religious package from the cradle to the casket. Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again!!!
1st Timothy 6:17-19, “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest people on earth, yet he has absolutely NOTHING! Hell will be his home unless he repents of his unbelief and trust Jesus Christ alone as His personal Savior. 1st Timothy 6:6-7, “But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.” Kindly said, Bill Gates was born in his birthday suit (naked), and that is all he will die with!
Please consider Apple founder Steve Jobs (with a net worth of $10,200,000,000), who died as a Christ-rejecting Buddhist. Buddhism has no religious dogma. It is a false religion of just be happy and love everybody, and forget God and theology! Unfortunately for Mr. Jobs, things don't work that way. Revelation 20:15, “And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” It's Heaven or Hell—faith alone in Jesus or eternal damnation! I accepted Jesus Christ as my blessed Savior when I was a 13 year old teenager. From that day until present I have enjoyed the wonderful presence of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; 1st John 3:24). He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me that I am His own. ...
Dear friend, the Devil always pays with counterfeit money! Lordship Salvation is fake money! You cannot buy your way into Heaven. John 10:1, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” Bob Jones University today is a den of thieves. Harvest Baptist Church on Guam are a pack of thieves. Marty Herron, Steve Pettit, Chuck Phelps, Sam Horn, John MacArthur and Gary Walton are all THIEVES! They are all trying to enter into Heaven SOME OTHER WAY than through the simply Gospel. The Gospel is simply the 'GOOD NEWS' that Jesus died for our sins on the cross. He was buried. Three days later Jesus bodily resurrected from the dead for our justification (1st Corinthians 15:1-4).
But the ungodly Bob Jones University crowd today say this is NOT sufficient to be saved. In ADDITION, they say you must repent and turn away from your sinning, and run the race faithfully to the end, or you will go to Hell. Read for your self what the theologically tainted president of BJU, Dr. Steve Pettit, preaches to their deceived students and faculty. Right doctrine matters folks! There is not another Gospel (Galatians 1:6-9). The Gospel of John teaches us the true Gospel. We see Christ's death, burial and resurrection in John chapters 19-20. There is no mention of the word “repent” in the Gospel of John. We find the word “believe” mentioned 85 times in the precious Gospel of John. This is God's Gospel tract. John 20:31, “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.”
1st Timothy 6:19, “Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” This Bible verse speaks about preparing for Heaven. It is not talking about getting saved, but of laying hold on the eternal life that we already posses as believers. We KNOW we are saved by faith alone in Christ. If you don't absolutely KNOW that you are saved, something is wrong and you need to settle that. I can help you if you email me, or search my ministry websites and blogs for assurance of salvation articles. Remember, assurance of salvation is not a separate doctrine than eternal security, they are the SAME doctrine. If you are saved you HAVE eternal security. The promise that God made “TO SAVE THEM THAT BELIEVE” in 1st Corinthians 1:21b is our assurance of salvation. Anybody who separates these doctrines is a false teacher!
I could write so much more. What doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world, yet dies in his sins without Jesus as His Savior? I am such a rich man in Christ!!! I shudder when I stop to think about how foolish the Neo-evangelical crowd is, with their Satanic heresy of Lordship Salvation, and their demonic “turn away from your sinful lifestyle” to be saved lies. No one can turn from their sins. The very idea that someone needs to hate their sins and be willing to stop committing them, as a condition of receiving God's free gift of eternal life is preposterous and unbiblical.
To the unregenerate mind forsaking sin sounds good and reasonable, but it is robbing Christ of the saving power that belongs to Him alone! JESUS PAID IT ALL, nothing to Him I owe. Getting saved is free, without any obligation or strings attached. You simply take it by faith in the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day. Nothing more is necessary or permitted by God. Galatians 3:26, “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” Why do men complicate everything? I don't know about you friend, but I am not trusting in uncertain riches. I don't want this world's temporary pleasures and wealth, they can have it all. Just give me Jesus!!! I don't need manmade religion, just give me Jesus!!!
There are millions of millionaires in the United States, most of whom do not know Jesus Christ as their Savior. But I know Him, and I love Jesus, He is precious to me!!! I would rather have Jesus than all the gold, pleasures, fame and money in this sin cursed world. Everything that means so much to 99% of people today will be gone 100 years from now. People fight, squabble, cut each other's throats, grappling over a few dollars and a home, for what? Matthew 6:19-20, “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:”
Playboy founder, Hugh Hefner (1926-2017), the old pervert, left behind an immaculate mansion worth over $100,000,000 when he died. Hugh couldn't take it with him to Hell. Hefner enjoyed immoral relationships with thousands of women during his sordid lifetime (Hebrews 13:4). Not surprisingly, coming from an unsaved wicked man, Hugh actually said He considers himself, “a pretty moral guy.” That's like Jimmy Hoffa saying he is a saintly mobster! That's like Marty Herron saying he is a real Christian. That's like Steve Pettit saying he knows what he's talking about concerning how to be saved. You get the picture! Dear reader, we must all give account to God. Hebrews 10:31, “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” My faith is in Christ alone, the hope of glory. My riches are in Jesus Christ!
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