Saints Made Merchandise

some are asking what realy does the book "Saints Made Merchandise" cover. Well the back cover summarises the content as follows: "There shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…" 2 Peter 2:1- 3

Having noticed gross financial abuses and outright dishonesty in the church, the author takes you through a biblical journey covering the subject of tithes, offerings and almsgiving. He traces the historical back ground of the subject with the intention of determining the necessity and legitimacy of the practice in the modern church.
The author warns against mishandling the word of God for the sake of personal gain through the use of feigned words designed to waylay the unsuspecting church members. He also warns against believing any unscriptural teaching, word or sermon claimed to have come from God without putting such doctrine to the biblical test. In that vein the author encourages saints to rightly divide the word of truth and avoid embarrassing abuses from wolves in sheep skin.
The purpose of this book is to return to the Bible and rediscover the old time doctrine on tithes, offerings, alms and prosperity. A lot of time and space has been devoted to what the Bible teaches rather than what it is meant to teach by those who are money hungry. It does not point a finger at who is distorting the faith but at which impurities have been added to the sound doctrine of our Lord. The author's aim is not to criticize but to correct. So boldly journey through the pages of this book and you will enjoy the journey.'
 ....... an extract from chapter three reads, "ROB: This is the only word I will trace down to its original Hebrew form. It is translated from the Hebrew word, קָבַע ‘QUABA’ which means to cover (up) i.e. defraud, to rob or spoil. ...... The word refers to taking what belongs to someone by chicanery without the owner’s consent. The Collins pocket English dictionary also confers the word defraud as one of the meanings of the term rob. Since it is feeble man who takes away what belongs to Almighty God, I strongly feel that the word plunder, which has violent connotations, cannot be the most suitable translation of the word in these circumstances. Instead the word defraud is a more suitable paraphrase because it denotes deception rather than violence. It also denotes deprivation. Here man takes by ruse and dishonesty rather than violence. What he merely does is convert what belongs to God to his own or some other use never intended by God. For instance, instead of providing food, the tithes will be used as a bait of gaining more wealth. The children of Israel never tithed in order to obtain more fields yet we do it for the sake of prosperity. We do not tithe to provide food but to entice God for some filthy riches. In short we have converted tithes to some other uses that God never intended. If we have sowed to the flesh must we reap of the spirit?

I encourage you to obtain your own copy to day on Amazon.com Pearl Press Publishers. You may also the following extract:
To some people prosperity consists of money and material wealth and nothing more. However, to me prosperity must be a byproduct of blessing. In fact it is written, "the blessing of the Lord make the rich ..." It therefore follows that the pursuit of wealth may be futile. Get yourself a copy of this book.

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