What God Wants

“What God Wants”

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - I am sure you have seen TBN and the Word Network all the popular televangelists who preach to millions of people around the world. You see how they are living a lifestyle few could imagine. They drive fancy cars and live inside lavish mansions, fly in some of the best private jets money can buy. Then they always get on T.V. and say stuff like God told me to tell you that if you sow a $1000 dollar seed that he will double your return, that he will heal your body and make all your dreams come true and if you don’t seed that $1000 dollars than all your dreams will fail. They will say things like if you just sow $500 dollars, I will send you this miracle oil or this miracle cloth and it will change your life. If you want God to truly bless you then you need to sow right now, step out on faith, and write that $1000 dollar check or if you really need a right now break through sow a $5000 dollar seed offering and God will break every financial shackle, every addiction, every curse in your life, that is bunch hogwash to put it nicely. Listen, never has and never will this kind of lying damnable talk ever draw one person to Jesus - not one person ever.

Let me say this loud and clear there has never been nor will there ever be a person that is drawn to Jesus Christ, who has been delivered, saved, set free, redeemed or any other spiritual attribute sowing a monetary amount into some televangelist campaigning and soliciting for money. Neither are they drawn to Jesus Christ by the luxurious lifestyle, the religious dress, the titles, positions, or ecclesiastical hierarchy of church structure. They are not drawn to Jesus Christ because some Televangelist got a so-called word from God telling them to write that astronomical check. What people are drawn to by these so-called preachers, evangelist, prophets, charlatans, and heretics is the hope and desire of wealth, prosperity, and a luxurious lifestyle.

Yes, the Bible says in Luke 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again”. 2 Corinthians 9:6 says, “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully”. Acts 20:35 says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive”.

Let me stop here and take a side bar and explain Luke 6:38 “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again”.

This is true and has been tested when it comes to generosity with material resources. Simply said, you can’t beat God giving no matter how you try. God will return more to you, in one way or another, more than you give to Him. The context of this scripture is not talking about money, but with the giving of love, mercy, and forgiveness. Yet there are those that manipulate this to mean a seed of sowing money. They will use this along with 30, 60, and 100-fold and say see God will increase your bank account if you just give.

Shall men give into your bosom: This is not about giving you money. Understand the people wore long loose robes down to the feet, and round the waist a girdle. The robe could be pulled up so that the bosom of the robe above the girdle formed a kind of oversized pocket in which things could be carried. Food and other needs. So men giving into your bosom is having a place to carry what they give you not money.

For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again: This is the principle upon which Jesus built the command, “Judge not, that you be not judged.” God will measure unto us according to the same measure we use for others. This is a powerful motivation for us to be generous with love, mercy, forgiveness, and goodness toward others. If we want more of those things from God, we should give more of them to others.

The false teachings of so many terrible televangelists, pathetic prophets, and misleading ministers who twist and manipulate scripture to line their pockets and sustain a luxurious way of living have manipulated these scriptures and made it seem as though there is a monetary demand from God that these things must first be accomplished for God to do what God desires to do in your life.