17,000 DELUSIONAL PEOPLE

Listen to Jude: "Yet it the same way, these men [false teachers] by dreaming . . . reject authority." 

When we dream, we're divorced from reality and the real world. In a dream, things aren't as they really are but twice a day and once on Sunday, world without end, amen,  people, sitting in church voluntarily hie themselves off into a world that doesn't exist. How so? They do try to go there when they do what the world famous preacher with the 1,000 watt smile, Joel Osteen, tells them to do.

He tells them to say twice a day, "I am blessed. I am prosperous. I am successful.” “I am victorious. I am talented. I am creative.” “I am wise. I am healthy. I am in shape.” “I am energetic. I am happy. I am positive.” “I am passionate. I am strong. I am confident.” “I am secure. I am beautiful. I am attractive.” “I am valuable. I am free. I am redeemed.” “I am forgiven. I am anointed. I am accepted.” “I am approved. I am prepared. I am qualified.” “I am motivated. I am focused. I am disciplined.” “I am determined. I am patient. I am kind.” “I am generous. I am excellent. I am equipped.” “I am empowered. I am well able.” “I am a child of the Most High God.”

To go further into Alice's Wonderland, he says that by saying those words twice a day, you will attract those things to you. Really? No. But every Sunday, 17,000 people gather in Houston to collectively leave reality to try to get to the land of unicorns, pots of gold, and four-leaf clovers. 

In the Bible he holds aloft, no one can find a promise therein that God will make a person beautiful and attractive, qualified and excellent, healthy and in shape, creative and energetic. Saying it won't make it so, Joe. To fall for that is to reject the authority of Scripture.

If you believe this say -it- and- claim- it-claptrap, I have the seven cities of Cibola I'll sell you.