Joyce Meyer -- Sound-Bite, Worthless, False Hope, Word Faith Heresy

The point of the covenant with Abram was not to reinforce some lame teaching on false hope. It is placing your hope in the only thing that endures and is never wrong -- what God says. Just because he lived in a tent that does not mean that we get stuck in our own tent. That is just silly hermeneutics. I agree that whenever we pray, read the Word or dwell on the things God has already done that this should produce hope. But not hope that God will wow us with something that will bless our socks off and make us stop looking at our brother and sister with the envy Joyce was promoting earlier. God said something to Abram that defied human logic but nonetheless Abram believed and it was counted to him as righteousness. God has now said so much to us through His Word and we ought to take the same level of comfort in it, let it produce a godly hope in Christ for what He has already done, and help us to avoid the wolves that seek to make merchandise off of us by twisting what God has said to their wicked heart's desires. Reject the sound-bite theology because God has so much more for us than this world could possibly offer.

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