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Rev. Earl Jackson
 
I put this new article on the site, to help Christians to understand Paul's important teachings in 1Tim 6:6-11.  This passage is a true antidote to the poison of the false gospel that says God wants every Christian to be rich.  Read this and it will help deliver your mind from all such prosperity heresy.

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I have been thinking about Jeremiah Burrough's puritan classic "The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment".  It was a wonderful book, and it draws our attention to a Christian quality which we seldom hear about today.  Paul said:  "For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong" (2Cor. 12:10 ESV).  He was content in these situations.  Likewise He says a similar thing in Philippians  " Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.  I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.   I can do all things through him who strengthens me"  (Phil. 4: 11-13 ESV).  How unlike the garbage we are hearing in our pulpits today?  Today's message is all about how to be successful,  how to have more and better things, how to have a bigger bank book, how to be your best through self-centered improvement.  The psychology of humanism, has invaded the church.   That's the reason why a discussion of the old Biblical doctrine of Christian Contentment...being content right where you are, with just exactly what you have,...sound like a doctrine from outer space.  It's an alien message.  A foreign sounding thing, because seldom if ever heard, especially in America, where the pursuit of the capitalistic American Dream, is number one priority.  We need to back up and regroup, and start thinking like Paul.  Our blessedness does not consist in the abundance of the things that we have (Lk. 12:15).   But in the abundance of our relationship with God.   Christ did not die so you could get more stuff.  He died to deliver you from this world and it's pollutions.  So it's time to set our affections on things above (Gal. 5:24; Col. 3:1;  Col. 3:2).  
 
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