I think your other post summed it up that we really agree more than we disagree. It think as you stated here, the problem is in the rules of interpretations that we use.
Part of it is that I am misunderstood because I am willing to throw my faith out into the impossible realms. Of what you said in this post I have to address one area.
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Originally Posted by A_PoMo
You'd be hard pressed to tell a believer in Darfur or the ghetto of Mexico city that it's their fault that they're poor and that if they'll just believe God that they'll be rich.
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A couple of things. It's not a "fault" issue. Someone in a poor country is subject to the economic conditions of that country until they get a revelation of the Word. When they separate themselves from the system that is impoverishing their nation and operate in God's system they can rise above that. Not that they will be a Bill Gates, but where they will have all sufficiency in all things.
I don't preach a "rich" gospel, I preach a "more than enough" gospel. How much is enough? Well, how much do you want to expand the gospel?
Finally, I am not hard pressed to do what you stated. In August I preached three Pastor conference in the remote areas of India. Around 1,000 Pastors in total. I preached out of
Col 3:
Col 3:1-2
1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (KJV)
Where's your thinking, above or on the earth?
I've preached similar messages in Kenya, Uganda, Russia, Bangladesh, China, Thailand, and Poland. I believe that the Word is not subject to the conditions of the earth. The conditions of the earth are subject to the Word.
2 Cor 4:18
18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. (NKJ)