We Have Been Taught Not to Discern - Part 4 — Andrew Strom

The Housing Crisis and Speaking Truth

Anything that's going to happen except gloom and doom. He says there's going to be a terrible housing crisis. And it's going to be the worst worst in 50 years. He says, you know, I published this. I published this three years ago Nouriel Roubini's prediction that there's going to be a housing crisis worse than 50 years.

I remember publishing in 2006. Why did I publish that? He's a secular guy to me. He was speaking the word of the Lord. I want to tell you that I could tell it was just a prophecy. Absolutely true, totally on the button.

I don't publish anything but spiritual stuff on my email list. Why would I publish a guy like that? He's speaking the truth. He's speaking about the end of bubble America and the beginning of a correction to our spiritual lives.

Hopefully praise God as well as all the silly economic junk. Okay, verse 10 Jesus said make the men sit down. So there's much grass in the place. So the men sat down a number about 5 ,000. And Jesus took the loaves and when he'd given thanks he distributed to the disciples.

The disciples to them that will sit down and likewise the fishes as many as they would. When they're filled he said unto his disciples gather the fragments that remain that nothing be lost. They gathered them together and filled 12 baskets with the fragments that five barley loaves which remained over And above unto those that are needed so a lot of us we think.

Deception and Falsehood in the Worldwide Church

We think that that the crisis is so bad that Jesus doesn't have an answer to this crisis. I Have had people write it to me. I've been writing about the worldwide crisis lately and saying do you know what the church worldwide has been overrun with?

Deception and falsehood on scale. I don't believe has ever been seen in history. I was just in Uganda. I go to Nigeria all the time. I want to tell you Africa is being utterly overrun with the worst kind of prosperity gospel.

And I tell them I tell them this openly. I say in Dallas, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma would be utterly ashamed of. What you guys are doing? They we have never seen in this country anything matching the way Nigerians take up offerings.

Prosperity Gospel and Manipulative Offerings

The way I've seen I've seen them basically prophesying to their money that they're taught to do this. They prophesy to their money during the offering time before they put it that it will bring back a return unto them.

And so what's the difference between that and witchcraft? Isn't that what exactly isn't that what witchcraft is you prophesy you sing for something to get something back? Isn't that which isn't that's what what you guys used to do in the witchcraft days.

They have the most horrendous. They have the classic, you know. Kind of you know, God's telling me that there's 21 people here with $700. You know the first 21 people up here giving this $700 are going to be blessed to be on Recognition and all of that they have it.

Night and day going on everywhere. Day in day out. They have far worse than that. They prophesy over people that they'll give them give the preacher money they. And I thought that Nigeria was unique and on my trip to Uganda I found that in the major cities of Africa where God has been moving in all the revival countries.

This type of garbage this type of sickness is taking such a hold. That in places it's hard to find preachers that are against it or that are not into it especially in the cities and as television is Spreading out into the countryside the garbage spreads with it because most of the garbage is on TV and what they're doing is they're taking your Preflow dollar type of stuff and they're multiplying it by a hundred and they're putting it into practice and they're practicing it on Simple and poor and precious sheep people that can hardly afford one set of clothes widows and you know.

They're practicing it on those kind of people, you know, I stayed in Nigeria. I stayed with a with a preacher. Who had a large church the guy had two Mercedes sitting in the driveway. He had a brand-new Lexus.

He had a he had a plasma television about as wide as from here. To the Big plasma television sitting inside his house. Where did all that money come from? It comes from poor Nigerian people. Where did they get this stuff?

Prosperity Preaching and the Love of Money

They got it from us. Except America Knows enough not to go so far down that road. America is not Completely oblivious to the fact that Jesus spoke against money again. America is not oblivious to that.

I want to tell you most of Nigeria thinks that God is all for money. Because that's all they get. The only Christian television they basically get is TV. So if you can imagine feeding yourself from a youth on TV in every single day.

We all you hear is prosperity and all you hear is that kind of stuff and all you see is those offerings being taken up In these big mega ministries. I don't say that's their constant diet. That's orthodoxy to them they don't know anything else I.

You know, it's priceless when I get in a group of pastors and I start preaching on the words of Jesus about money. I just got to start quoting Jesus and you could almost watch their jaws hit the floor with shock.

What does that mean? It means number one. They've never heard that never heard anybody preach on the words of Jesus. Prosperity preachers mostly don't give a preach on the words of Jesus. Do they why.

Because he's always preaching against money. Always, I mean, you know from the Sermon on the Mount onwards. It's just all you can't hardly find a parable that where you know. Where is not preaching against the kind of stuff that prosperity preachers stand for?

When I started just going into that, you know, let's just open the Bible and just start reading the words in red, you know. Let's get into it a little bit. You know, it's like jaw-dropping Lee shocking to these guys and to many Americans to.

The Devil's Word Dominating the Church

You know, you can almost say these words, you know, I hesitate to say them because One other seats, they're not true. But here's this is the fact that the devil is slowly or quickly taking over the church.

Devil is quickly over the devil's word is dominating the church. The devil's word is succeeding. All of the righteous preachers are usually too poor to compete. When you're gathering millions and millions of dollars, you know I know of guys that have gone into Lagos Nigeria and spent over a million dollars on The crusade in a poor country.

You don't need to spend that except for the fact that why are they spinning it? Because they're paying off so many pastors. Pastors now expect to get huge gifts. Sometimes cars often suits just to come come to meetings and bring their people to meetings.

I won't bore you with other other horror stories. I mean, it just goes on. I Thought Nigeria was unique, but I've learned it's not unique. The same stuff is happening all through the third world all through South America.

The Global Spread of Prosperity Theology

Central America. Brazil. They say is awful. Haven't been to Brazil yet. I'm due to go down to South and Central America this coming year. So hopefully I'll get to see and evaluate what's going on. Now, why does this matter to us?

Because here. One little lad. It says has five loaves and a couple of fishes. And look what Jesus does. And we we take this as a spiritual example for a moment and talk about bread as being the word of the Lord.

Speaking Truth in a Time of Spiritual Famine

The word of the Lord coming forth, you know. Even in a famine even when there is nothing left and everybody looks around and says we've had it. The preachers are gone. We're heading down this road of Wales again.

It's it's going to be a disaster. America's going to turn into that. I Want to say to you? Isn't there people in this room who know the truth? Isn't there people in this room who are basically that little lad with his five five loaves and we say oh, yeah.

But I'm too small. I can't match with those guys. I'll say yes, you can. You can match with the guys. Why. Because you have truth in your mouth and all that's ever historically happened. When God moves is for a few simple people to stand up and daringly start speaking truth.

And it's nothing more extravagant than that. The problem with it is is it takes quite tremendous courage because why you're standing against the big guys. It takes a lot of courage because even in your church.

Let's say or wherever you come from the group that you hang out with. These lies have been imbibed and you start standing up and saying just a few words. Just pointing out a few very basic truths. Just to quote the words of Jesus for a while.

It's going to cause some real ructions in the church. It's really going to give you some persecution for a while. You might you might find yourself getting the right boot or the left boot of fellowship Pastor so-and-so might not like my.