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This Week In Financial Apostasy

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But man sure can lie. We now move from the ridiculous to the obscene. Ed Young pastors a mega church called Fellowship Church. He wanted to castigate his congregation about tithing recently so he brought in mega church pastor of Lifepoint Church, Brad White to do his dirty work. This is a trend I have noticed recently. The home pastor doesn't want the negativity directly associated to him so he brings in a well known outsider to teach tithing. We saw Rick Warren for example bring in Robert Morris to teach tithing to Saddleback Church. The real problem of course is in what Brad White taught.

I watched Part Two of this series, which can be found on the Fellowship Church website. The Scriptural argument made involves the story of Cain and Abel, which is the same heresy promoted by Perry Noble recently. Brad White however, took it to disgusting new lows. The first thing I noticed is that he was reading out of something called the Good News Translation. While admittedly not knowing much about this translation which came out only a few decades ago, a simple Google search turned up plenty of concerns and criticisms. Laying that aside we see White lay the rotten foundation of his sermon. He claims that in Genesis 4 we see the following:

"After some time, Cain brought some of his harvest to the Lord."

The heretical teaching of "first fruits" as a precursor to tithing relies upon the denial of Cain's sacrifice and the acceptance of Abel. What Pastor White does here though is not hermeneutics. He is not expositing the text at all. He is reading into it to support what he needs to find in order to demand that people send the church money. He focuses on the usage of the word "some" twice in the verse above. Here is the absurd conclusions he draws, paraphrased:

"You know what Cain did? Cain harvested all of his garden but he paid the bills first. Cain gave to this distributer and he paid that distributer. He then paid his employees and his rent. He made sure his pantry was full. He even set some aside in a barn for the future in case there was a drought. Then after he took care of all of his responsibilities he brought some to God and he thought God would be proud of him. But God said - I'm disappointed in you because you did not bring me the first and the best. I gave you the best and you gave me leftovers. You see here is what Cain said - I will bring what I want, when I want to bring it."

Wow. That would be a compelling argument if not for one fact - none of what he said is remotely true. The text does not indicate ANY of this nonsense. Cain did not have distributers and employees; or for that matter rent. We do not know if he harvested his entire garden. We do not know if he made sure his pantry was full and he had some stored in the barn for a rainy day. Quite frankly, Pastor White simply made all of those points up to convince the sheep of God that He expects you to pay Him before you pay your bills. Think about this for a minute. A man pretending to be a man of God completely mangled the Bible to form the foundation of his argument. This is a similar heresy taught by Robert Morris, who claims God curses your money if you do not pay Him before your mortgage and electric bill. It is shameless. It is gutless. It is lies straight from the pit of hell. How do I know that? Because it is not biblical!

But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. - 1Timothy 5: 8 (ESV)

God expects you to pay your bills beloved. He expects that you will provide for your family. It is a matter of your heart. All the verse said was the word "some." This is beyond poor interpretation. It is willful deception to prop up a pre-conceived talking point. What is worse is when you see the verse in question quoted from a real translation:

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