Sunday, July 25, 2021

Sanctification

One of my friends copied a pastor's message to me yesterday:
"Oorwinnaars, hoor vandag die Woord van die kant van die Here af!! Dinge gaan skielik begin uitwerk in jou lewe." 
A prophecy: Things will suddenly begin to work out in your life. This message had more than a thousand (positive) responses. It is classic prosperity gospel. People whose survival is hanging by a thread, told that God has this to say to them. Christian doctrine and experience is about justification, sanctification, glorification. Sanctification means that there will be loss and hardship, not that things will suddenly begin to work out. OBSERVATION: Of course, they might indeed suddenly begin to work out, and sanctification means that God is in control. Anyway, a prosperity gospel is in conflict with one of the Christian fundamentals.

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