subject: THROUGH COVETOUSNESS THUS SAITH THE LORD: [print this page] "Covetousness", "pleonexia", meaning, covetousness, greediness; "pleonexia" is a larger
term which includes "philarguria" love of money to HOARD AWAY AVARICE. It is
connected with extortioners (1 cor. 5/10); with thefts (Mk. 7/22, covetous thoughts, plans
of fraud and extortion); with sins of the flesh (Eph. 5/3,5; Col. 3/5). "Pleonexia may be
said to be the ROOT FROM WHICH THESE SINS GROW, THE LONGING OF
THE CREATURE WHICH HAS FORSAKEN GOD TO FILL ITSELF WITH THE
LOWER OBJECTS OF NATURE". (Zodhiates word study). "COVETOUSNESS
WHICH IS IDOLATRY" SAITH THE LORD: COL. 3/5.
"Feigned", "plastos", meaning, to mold. Artificial, feigned, false, hypocritical, deceitful,
words easily shaped as desired. (Zodhiates word study).
"Merchandise", "emporion", meaning, Emporium, market, a place where COMMERCE
OCCURS. (Zodhiates word study).
The following three pages are taken from the "Australian Christian Churches",
(Assemblies of God in Australia), website. Some big questions have to be asked don`t
you think? If you purport to be a preacher of righteousness, then how can you be, if you
support such an organization, an institutionalized religious abomination, full of, and
controlled by nothing but idolatrous, covetous, lukewarm, vacillating, religious
pretenders,..seeing how this organization has seen fit to set up a BANK,.IN
THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS TOO!......................YOU`VE GOT TO BE JOKING:
HOW MUCH DOCTRINE DOES THIS CONTRAVINE!
HOW MANY EARS HAVE BEEN STOPPED AND EYES BLINDED TO THE
TRUTH TO SEE THIS ACCOMPLISHED!
HOW MUCH DOCTRINE AND TRUTH IS PERVERTED, TWISTED,
IGNORED, CONVENIENTLY OMITTED, DELETED, (REV. 21/19) TO RATIFY,
JUSTIFY, LEGALISE, REASON AWAY SO AS TO ACCEPT THIS SPUTUM AS
CORRECT POSTURE IN CHRIST?????????? (REV. 2/6,15).
Years ago Loving Father quickened the words of a poem to us called "The Golden
Fleece", (to be found under poetry on website under title "I AM").
Two of the lines in that poem are,. "PRETTY SOON THEY`RE GOING TO
LOOK LIKE THE VATICAN, AND YOU MIGHT WELL SAY, OH NO, NOT
THAT AGAIN"!............Looks like it has happened doesn`t it?.... BECAUSE THE
WARNING WAS NOT HEEDED YEARS AGO IN THE FIRST PLACE:
THUS..SAITHTHE.............LORD:
"YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON". MATH. 6/24. LUKE 16/13.
"Mammon", "mammonas", meaning, wealth, the personification of riches. Mammon, the
comprehensive word for all kinds of possessions, earnings, and gains, a designation of
material value, the god of materialism. (Zodhiates word study).
"BUT THEY THAT WILL BE RICH FALL INTO TEMPTATION AND A
SNARE, AND INTO MANY FOOLISH AND HURTFUL LUSTS, WHICH
DROWN MEN IN DESTRUCTION AND PERDITION. FOR THE LOVE OF
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL: WHICH WHILE SOME COVETED
AFTER, THEY HAVE ERRED FROM THE FAITH, AND PIERCED
THEMSELVES THROUGH WITH MANY SORROWS". 1 TIM. 6/9-10.
These fakes, these "church going" pretenders, carry on business (2 Tim. 2/4-5) no
different to that of the unrighteous mammon in the world: HOW CAN THEY EVEN
PRESUME THAT THEY ARE SEPARATED, CIRCUMSISED, SET APART FROM
THE FILTH THAT IS IN THE WORLD? HOW CAN THEY BE SO FOOLED INTO
THINKING THAT THEY ARE CHILDREN OF LOVING FATHER, AND
BLASPHEMOUSLY CALL THEMSELVES CHRIST`S BRETHREN?
AND THESE "SHALL RECEIVE THE REWARD OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, AS
THEY THAT COUNT IT PLEASURE TO RIOT IN THE DAY TIME. SPOTS THEY
ARE AND BLEMISHES, SPORTING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN
DECEIVINGS WHILE THEY FEAST WITH YOU; HAVING EYES FULL OF
ADULTERY AND THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN; BEGUILING UNSTABLE
SOULS: AN HEART THEY HAVE EXERCISED WITH COVETOUS
PRACTICES CURSED CHILDREN: WHICH HAVE FORSAKEN THE RIGHT
WAY, AND ARE GONE ASTRAY FOLLOWING THE WAY OF BALAAM THE
SON OF BOSOR, WHO LOVED THE WAGES OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS"; 1
PET. 2/13-15.
"THESE ARE WELLS WITHOUT WATER, CLOUDS THAT ARE CARRIED WITH
A TEMPEST: TO WHOM THE MIST OF DARKNESS IS RESERVED FOR EVER.
FOR WHEN THEY SPEAK GREAT SWELLING WORDS OF VANITY, THEY
ALLURE THROUGH THE LUSTS OF THE FLESH, THROUGH MUCH
WANTONNESS, THOSE THAT WERE CLEAN ESCAPED FROM THEM WHO
LIVE IN ERROR. WHILE THEY PROMISE THEM LIBERTY, THEY THEMSELVES
ARE THE SERVANTS OF CORRUPTION: FOR OF WHOM A MAN IS
OVERCOME, OF THE SAME IS HE BROUGHT IN BONDAGE". 1 PET. 2/17-19.
"KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND THAT THE
SPIRIT OF GOD DWELLETH IN YOU"? 1 COR. 3/16.
So then, if we are Loving Father`s house where He dwells,..and "covetousness is
idolatry", then anyone who covets, lusts after, chases money, SERVES MAMMON, is
setting up IDOLS IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LIVING GOD, DEFILING THE
TEMPLE, PROFANING THE SANCTUARY: EX. 20/2-5.
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
"TAKE THESE THINGS HENCE; MAKE NOT MY FATHER`S HOUSE AN
HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE". JOHN 2/16.
"IF ANY MAN DEFILE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, HIM SHALL GOD DESTROY;
FOR THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YE ARE". 1 COR.
3/17.
"AND WHAT AGREEMENT HATH THE TEMPLE OF GOD WITH IDOLS? 2
COR. 6/16.
"WHEREFORE COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, AND BE YE SEPARATE,
SAITH THE LORD, AND TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING; AND I WILL
RECEIVE YOU, AND WILL BE A FATHER UNTO YOU, AND YE SHALL BE
MY SONS AND DAUGHTERS, SAITH THE LORD ALMIGHTY". 2 COR. 6/17-
18.
"I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT: I
WOULD THOU WERT COLD OR HOT. SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART
LUKEWARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF
MY MOUTH. BECAUSE THOU SAYEST, I AM RICH, AND INCREASED WITH
GOODS, AND HAVE NEED OF NOTHING; AND KNOWEST NOT THAT
THOU ART WRETCHED, AND MISERABLE, AND POOR, AND BLIND, AND
NAKED: I COUNSEL THEE TO BUY OF ME GOLD TRIED IN THE FIRE,
THAT THOU MAYEST BE RICH; AND WHITE RAIMENT, THAT THOU
MAYEST BE CLOTHED, AND THAT THE SHAME OF THY NAKEDNESS DO
NOT APPEAR; AND ANOINT THINE EYES WITH EYESLAVE, THAT THOU
MAYEST SEE". REV. 3/15-18.
Contrary to righteous doctrine, BUT FULFILLING OTHER SCRIPTURE, THIS
RELIGIOUS ABOMINATION "ALLURES THROUGH THE LUST OF THE FLESH",
"BEGUILING UNSTABLE SOULS", TICKLING THOSE EARS THAT ITCH TO
HEAR THAT IT IS OK TO CHASE FILTHY LUCRE, BECOME RICH, BE
COMFORTABLE, WELL OFF, HOARD UP MONEY, USING ALL SORTS OF
FILTHY LIES TO EXTRACT FUNDS OUT OF THE FOLK SUCH AS, "THE
MONEY IS USED TO FURTHER THE KINGDOM, PLANT CHURCHES, DEVELOP
CHURCHES, MISSIONS, "YOU CAN`T EXPAND THE KINGDOM WITHOUT
MONEY: (sort of makes the enterprises sound legitimate, OK, it must be God, you
certainly need money to do the work of God, it must be Holy, righteous).
IF THIS IS SO,..WOULDN`T YOU LIKE TO KNOW JUST HOW THEY ARE
ABLE TO MULTIPLY THE DEPOSITS BACK TO YOU WITH INTEREST????????
HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE FUNDING MISSIONS, PLANTING CHURCHES,
DEVELOPING CHURCHES PROVIDES A RETURN ON THE MONIES POURED
INTO THEM SO THAT THIS FILTHY INSTITUTION CAN REPAY THE
INVESTMENTS PLUS THE INTEREST PROMISED,..UNLESS THEY ARE
EXTORTING A PERCENTAGE EACH WEEK, MONTH, YEAR OUT OF THE
MISSIONS AND CHURCHES, CALLING THE INITAIL FUNDS,.A
LOAN,.THAT HAS TO BE REPAID REGULARLY,WITH INTEREST!
OR..THEY ARE LYING TO YOU AND USING THE FUNDS TO
INVEST IN SHORT TERM, HIGH DIVIDEND SCHEMES PURVEYED BY OTHER
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; OF COURSE IF THIS IS THE CASE, THEN YOU
WOULD BE NAVE TO THINK THAT FUNDS ARE NOT BEING SKIMMED BY
THOSE WHO ARE IN CONTROL TO SELFISHLY LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS:
THUS SAITH THE LORD:
"FOR THEY THAT ARE SUCH SERVE NOT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT
THEIR OWN BELLY; AND BY GOOD WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES
DECEIVE THE HEARTS OF THE SIMPLE". RO. 16/18.
"WHOSE END IS DESTRUCTION, WHOSE GOD IS THEIR BELLY; AND
WHOSE GLORY IS IN THEIR SHAME, WHO MIND EARTHLY THINGS".
COL. 3/19.
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD JESUS THE CHRIST:
"KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE
KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATORS, NOR
IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE, NOR ABUSERS OF
THEMSELVES WITH MANKIND, NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS, NOR
DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS, NOR EXTORTIONERS, SHALL INHERIT
THE KINGDOM OF GOD". 1 COR. 6/10.
Bevan Kluver,
Straight Talk Ministries,
P. O. Box 405,
North Tamborine,
Qld., 4272,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
www.straighttalkmin.org
bevan.kluver@bigpond.com
"speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness, earnestly contending for the faith";
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