Let’s just start with:
JOHN 8:7
He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
If that is not you, then put down your tiny little fists and walk away.
PROVERBS 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
LUKE 6:42
How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
THIS IS PASTOR OSTEEN’S MESSAGE -- IT’S SIMPLE:
GALATIANS 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
That is Pastor Osteen’s message. Where is the problem with that?
1 SAMUEL 16:7
Man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
PSALM 105:15
Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
JOHN 4:36
Both he that sows and he that reaps rejoice together.
SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE MOTHER LODE OF ALL SIN
ROMANS 8:8
There is, therefore, no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus and are called according to His purpose.
THE DEVIL IS THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN — THAT JOB HAS BEEN FILLED
Spend your effort and energy spreading the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, instead of attacking and falsely accusing one of His faithful servants.
GALATIANS 6:1
Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person in a spirit of gentleness. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
Pastor Osteen is a person with a gentle spirit. Spiritual people restore, they don't condemn. Restore in a spirit of gentleness.
PROVERBS 25:16
A soft tongue breaks the bone.
If Pastor Osteen is “just a motivational speaker”, then I’ll take it, because SOMEHOW, people are being “motivated” right into salvation — “motivated” to find Christ and be saved.
If Pastor Osteen is just a corrupt, motivational speaker, then he's doing it wrong, because people are being saved, healed, and delivered under his ministry.
How many souls have been saved, healed, or delivered under YOUR ministry today…???
How many schools, orphanages, nursing homes, or clean water wells have been built under YOUR ministry today…???
How many prisons have heard the gospel under YOUR ministry today…?
How many hungry have been fed under YOUR ministry today?
How many child sex slaves have been rescued under YOUR ministry today…???
I'll wait…
Which one of Pastor Osteen's books, tapes, or sermons that you’ve experienced for yourself brought you to such disdain for him? I’ll wait…
It would be AWESOME if just HALF of you haters and detractors would spend as much time, effort, and energy on spreading the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as you do falsely accusing, condemning, and attacking one of God’s faithful servants.
PSALM 105:15
Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A FALSE PROPHET
A false prophet is one who falsely claims the gift of prophecy or divine inspiration, or who uses that gift for evil ends and to draw souls AWAY from the faith. Show me where Pastor Osteen has done that. I’ll wait…
ACTS 13:6-10
And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a FALSE PROPHET, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus: 7Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God. 8But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, SEEKING TO TURN AWAY THE DEPUTY FROM THE FAITH. 9Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Elymas the sorcerer was blinded for his efforts to cause others to be blind to the gospel of grace.
Which, ironically, is what YOU who are FALSELY ACCUSING Pastor Osteen are doing.
The problem with you false accusers is you have no idea what THE FAITH IS!
MATTHEW 7:13-14
*NARROW* IS THE GATE AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT.
You false accusers also have no idea just what a false prophet is: Look in the mirror. YOU are turning people AWAY from the preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ. YOU are the false prophet.
7 TRAITS OF FALSE PROPHETS IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING
MATTHEW 7:13-15
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
JOHN 8:7
And He said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.
MATTHEW 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity. In the same way, you appear to be righteous on the outside, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
MATTHEW 12:34
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
1 CHRONICLES 16:22
Touch not Mine anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.
FALSE ACCUSERS have the Pharisaical spirit of antichrist.
Hate filled, sanctimonious, self righteous contempt and condemnation. You try to distract and detract people from hearing the true gospel of grace through Jesus Christ, alone.
LUKE 17:1-2
Then He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they come! It would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he be cast into the sea, than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
JAMES 4:11-12
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the Law and judges it. And if you judge the Law, you are not a practitioner of the Law, but a judge of it. 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
MATTHEW 18:15
Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone, IN PRIVATE: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
If you haven’t gone to Pastor Osteen IN PRIVATE with your complaints about him, then consider doing that, or keep it to yourself.
THE SCRIPTURE SAYS TO GO TO YOUR BROTHER IN PRIVATE TO CORRECT HIM, NOT PUT HIM ON BLAST ON FACEBOOK
SOROS-FUNDED GROUPS FUELED JOEL OSTEEN’S CHURCH STORY
TEXAS PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN RESPONDS TO HURRICAN HARVEY CRITICISM AFTER CHURCH REMAINS CLOSED TO VICTIMS
Lakewood Church was also flooded and not on the approved list of Houston official’s network of storm shelters. The building was prone to and had a long history of flooding, therefore not safe, nor responsible for taking anyone in. However, they never closed their doors and continued to act as a distribution center to those in need. So, you can all put away your razor-like tongues and poison pens, and put down your rocks, and please stop the hate. I beg of you.
MATTHEW 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
MARK 9:42
Whoever causes one of these little ones who believes in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be thrown into the sea.
1 CORINTHIANS 8:12
By sinning against your brothers in this way and wounding their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.
ACT 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with ENVY, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
JAMES 3:16
For where ENVY and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
ACT 15:5
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Law of Moses.
GALATIANS 5:4
For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the Law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God’s grace.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18-19
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
LUKE 6:36-38
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. 37Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
MATTHEW 7:1
Do not judge, or you will be judged. 2For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you
JAMES 4:11
Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the Law and judges it. And if you judge the Law, you are not a practitioner of the Law, but a judge of it. 12There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
PROVERBS 10:21-22
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment. The blessing of the Lord enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
Do you honestly think your condemnation and false accusations are good spiritual food?The truth does not require your participation.
SOME PLANT, SOME WATER, BUT GOD GIVES THE INCREASE
1 CORINTHIANS 3:5-7
What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, as the Lord has assigned to each his role. 6 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
1 PETER 2:1-2
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Pastor Osteen’s ministry may not be for everyone. Some may find it the milk of the word. But, desire the sincere milk of the word, because where there is no milk, there will be no meat. Don’t tear that down. Leave it for those who need it by which to grow. All ministries are not for everyone. Find what’s right for you and leave others for others.
LUKE 9:50
Jesus said, he that is not against us is for us.
MATTHEW 12:30
He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
IT IS THE DEVIL, HIMSELF, THAT SCATTERS THE FLOCK.
MATTHEW 23:26-28
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well. 27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every impurity. 28In the same way, you appear to be righteous on the outside, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
JUST TOO DANG RICH
Abraham was the heir of the *world: *Original Greek: cosmos/kosmos
Poor people can't help people.
Adam was rich.
Abraham was rich.
Isaac was rich.
Joseph was rich.
David was rich.
Solomon was rich.
Jesus was rich.
Jesus was buried in a rich man's tomb.
The Israelites left Egypt with all the silver and gold and precious stones they could carry, according to God's command.
1 KINGS 3:13
Moreover, I will give you what you did not request — both riches and honor — so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
PSALM 112:3
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
PROVERBS 8:18
With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
PROVERBS 10:3
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
PROVERBS 3:16 (WISDOM)
Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.
1 TIMOTHY 5:18
For Scripture says, "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and "The worker deserves his wages.”
Pastor Osteen takes not one thin dime from Lakewood Church since 2005. He gets his money the old fashioned way: he EARNS it.
Pastor Osteen earns his OWN money from the sale of over 10 million books worldwide, of 68 books to date, multiple #1 New York Times best sellers, translated into over 50 languages, television broadcasts, arena ticket sales, and personal investments. So, what he does with HIS OWN money has nothing to do with you, and frankly, how God chooses to prosper Pastor Osteen is none of your business.
Pastor Osteen reportedly banks over $55 million a year through the sales of his numerous best-selling books and tapes, and related journals and study guides, according to Celebrity Net Worth. The New York Times reported that his first book alone sold over four million hardcover copies.
The devil doesn't want the righteous to prosper, because then they can expand the kingdom.
You didn't get your job from someone poorer than you.
POVERTY IS NOT A VIRTUE.
The poor you shall have with you always.
ISAIAH 48:17
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God which teaches you to profit, which leads you by the way that you should go.
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
DEUTERONOMY 8:18
It is the Lord your God that gives you the power to gain wealth.
DEUTERONOMY 8:5-18
So know in your heart that just as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you. 6Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, walking in His ways and fearing Him.
7For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; 8a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; 9a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills can be mined for copper. 10When you eat and are satisfied, you are to bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you.
11Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. 12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, 13and when your herds and flocks grow large, your silver and gold increase, and all that you have is multiplied, 14then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint. 16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might *CAUSE YOU TO PROSPER.*
17You may say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.” 18But remember that it is *THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO GIVES YOU THE POWER TO GAIN WEALTH,* in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
POVERTY DOES NOT ESTABLISH GOD’S COVENANT.
WEALTH ESTABLISHES GOD’S COVENANT.
The poor can help no one. We are blessed to BE a blessing.
I just don't know why people are so offended by Pastor Osteen’s success. He writes successful books. People buy them. He gets rich. Baseball player hits a little white ball. He gets rich. People cheer.
We still live in a free country. Over 90% of the millionaires in this country are 1st generation. They worked for it. Nobody gave it to them.
Poor people can't significantly help people.
MATTHEW 2:11
And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshiped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; *GOLD*, and frankincense, and myrrh.
Yes, GOLD, REAL GOLD, not spiritual gold. REAL GOLD. Not a commemorative coin, but treasure fit for the King they knew He was.
MATTHEW 6:28
Seek first the Kingdom of God & HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, by faith alone in Jesus Christ, not your righteousness!
Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
1 KINGS 3:13
Moreover, I will give you what you did not request — both riches and honor — so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
PSALM 112:3
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
PROVERBS 8:18
With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
PROVERBS 10:3
The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
How God chooses to prosper Pastor Osteen is between him and God, and frankly, none of your business.
To many, many people around the world, YOU look unduly rich. Sell all you have and give to the poor. At least get off the internet and give that money to the poor.
Would you rather that Pastor Osteen be poor? The poor can help no one, yet need help themselves. The poor don't dig fresh water wells, nor build schools, nor orphanages. Do you?? Pastor Osteen’s ministry does.
Which one of Pastor Osteen's books, tapes, or sermons brought you to the conclusion that it was a wise idea to falsely accuse Pastor Osteen so viciously and heinously? Or, did you just pick it up off the internet...
How many of Pastor Osteen's books have you read?? How many of Pastor Osteen's messages have you listened to?? Or, is that just your judgmental, baseless, uninformed, headline grabbing, book-cover-title-reading opinion?? So, you just call for Barabbas because everyone else does? That’s called mob mentality and it’s very, very dangerous. For everyone involved.
Be Christ conscience, not sin conscience.
What you focus on, you get more of.
MATTHEW 9:35-38
And JESUS WENT ABOUT all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
Jesus never said, Go ye out into all the world and preach SIN CONSCIOUSNESS! NO! He said, Go out and preach THE GOSPEL! The Gospel is the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ, not hell fire & brimstone.
ROMANS 2:4
IT IS THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT DRAWS MEN UNTO REPENTANCE.
Does Pastor Osteen tell us of how good God is? Why, yes — yes he most certainly does. Constantly. Faithfully. Consistently.
THE WEDDING AT CANA
JOHN 2:1-10
On the third day there was a (Heb. 13:4)wedding in John 4:46Cana of Galilee, and the John 19:25mother of Jesus was there. 2Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4Jesus said to her, John 19:26“Woman, 2 Sam. 16:10what does your concern have to do with Me? John 7:6, 8, 30; 8:20My hour has not yet come.”
5His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
6Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, Matt. 15:2; (Mark 7:3; Luke 11:39); John 3:25according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. 9When the master of the feast had tasted John 4:46the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
GRACE AND CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS
JESUS'S FIRST MIRACLE, WATER INTO WINE, RESULTED IN LUXURY AND CELEBRATION
LAW AND WORKS CONSCIOUSNESS
MOSES'S FIRST MIRACLE, WATER INTO BLOOD, RESULTED IN DEATH
THE LOAVES & FISHES
THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND
ABUNDANCE AND NO LACK
LUKE 9:13-16
But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.”
“We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.” 14 (There were about five thousand men.)
He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” 15They did so, and everyone was seated.
16Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus spoke a blessing and broke them. Then He gave them to the disciples to set before the people.
17They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
THE WIDOW'S MITE
JESUS HAD A TREASURY & A TREASURER
LUKE 12:41-44
As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts. 42Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius. 43Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more than all the others into the treasury. 44For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
THE WIDOW'S CRUZ OF OIL
2 KINGS 4:4-7
4 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.
2 And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
3 Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
4 And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.
6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
THE ISRAELITES LEFT EGYPT WITH ALL THE SILVER AND GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES THEY COULD CARRY, ACCORDING TO GOD’S COMMAND
EXODUS 12:35
The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
2 CORINTHIANS 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.
PROVERBS 10:22
It is the blessing of the LORD that makes rich, And He adds no *sorrow (*Greek: painful labor) to it.
GENESIS 24:35
The LORD has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.
GENESIS 26:12
Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him.
DEUTERONOMY 8:18
But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
DEUTERONOMY 28:11
The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
1 CHRONICLES 16:22
Touch not My anointed & do My prophets no harm.
WE ARE ALL MEMBERS OF ONE BODY
ONE BODY WITH MANY MEMBERS
1 CORINTHIANS 12:12-27
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. 14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many. 15 If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? 18 But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. 19 If all were a single member, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25 that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
The accuser of the brethren position has been filled. You can put down your rocks and your pointy little fingers, now, and go home.
REVELATION 12:10
For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
Thank God we have an Advocate with the Father.
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