- The question I wanna ask is that who do they give credit
to for their own success and prosperity?
To whom or to what do they give prosperity?
To themselves, to their smarts?
No, God wants to get all the glory.
Remember it is the Lord god who gives you power
to get wealth.
- [Laurie] So people that teach against that
are teaching against the cross.
- Wow.
- Is that what you just said?
About what Jesus did for us fully at the cross.
Wow.
- I think many of them believe
that they're not aware of that.
I think that they believe they are fighting for the purity
of the New Testament teachings and all that,
but personally I think there's a lot of hypocrisy there
because of many of them who will come against
the prosperity teaching, now I'm against,
I think we all understand and we are all on the same page.
We are all against the abuse of this teachings.
The wrong teachings of prosperity that produces materialism,
greed, (indistinct), we are all against that,
but those that are against prosperity as a whole
is negating the scriptures because, the reason I say
that there's some hypocrisy here
is because many of them are prospering.
They have more than one car, they live in expensive homes,
they send their children to the best schools,
and they want their children to succeed,
but all the while they are coming against prosperity,
so the question I wanna ask is that who do they
give credit to for their own success and prosperity?
To whom or to what do they give prosperity?
To themselves, to their smarts?
No, God wants to get all the glory.
Remember it is the Lord God who gives you power
to get wealth.
So if you say that you are against God prospering people,
then how do yo explain your prosperity?
Who are you giving glory to for your prosperity?
Your own intellect, your own prowess,
your financial accumine?
Because you give glory to someone.
- So, Joseph, I just wanna make a note.
That was pretty direct what you just said
and I think that-
- It's a good old Singaporean way.
- Well, I'm just saying, most of the time
I think of Joseph Prince as one of the kindest,
gentlest, meekest people.
- He's still being kind and gentle.
- But you're really, that means something to you.
This re or misdirection of one of the atoning works
of the cross, you got a little fired up on that.
This is an issue to you, isn't it?
- The reason being because of this teachings,
so-called teachings against prosperity that
has caused a lot of people to shun it altogether
and as a result their faith is not reaching out to God
to even believe for that aspect of their lives.
They're so afraid.
Pastors are intimidated from preaching this message,
lest they be lumped among the prosperity preachers,
you know, and last said, we're all against the abuse,
but to negate the whole teaching of prosperity
that God is restoring in these last days
just like in times past, during the times of Martin Luther,
he didn't understand about the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
He didn't touch on the gifts of the Holy Spirit,
but the Lord restored the baptism of the Holy Spirit
in our day and age and then God is restoring
the teaching of prosperity.
And if God doesn't want us to prosper,
then why did Jesus become poor at the cross?
Why did Jesus say things like, "Seek ye first
the Kingdom of God and all these things
will be taken away from you"?
Why did he say, instead of that, he says,
"All these things will be added unto you."
So I think the reason I feel passionately about it
is because I see a lot of pastors and leaders
being intimidated, all right,
from preaching the true gospel.
Now, the gospel produces prosperity,
but the gospel is not prosperity.
It's a gospel of grace and peace.