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#439 The Prosperity Gospel is DANGEROUS - Tim Staples

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The Prosperity Gospel - The 16 Fundamentals of the Faith

Pentecostal movement famously began in 19 o six, at the famous azuza street revival. The prosperity gospel teaches that if you are not healed, then that means what? You don't have faith. How is that different from blaming the victim? It's like saying to the person with cancer, you have cancer because of your lack of faith.

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But now, when it comes to the prosperity gospel, well, what happens is, and again, you see this in the assemblies of god, in one of the 16 fundamentals of the faith, they teach that that text, first peter two, 24, quoting isaiah 53, verses three to five, especially verse five, by his stripes, we were healed, applies not only to our salvation, but to our physical healing. Cyclet us. This became foundational to to the pentecostal movement that famously began in 19 o six, at the famous azuza street revival. That kind of gave birth to
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the pentecostal movement in the united states, and it spread all over the world. So, yes, me just understand something then, because hi dent it with the joyce myers and the kenneth copelands and the joostins of the world. It. What they're saying is that already he has healed your body. The consequence of that is that if you are not healed, then that means what? You don't have faith. Amen oceso. Now, how do you know you're saved then? How is that different from blaming the victim? Oh, you see what i'm saying? Like that's like saying to the person with cancer, you have cancer because of your lack of faith.

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