Blasphemy: You Need Resources To Lift The Name Of Jesus.


Recently i came across a video message of one Joshua Selman, and i was sore grieved & peeved, seeing him teach outright blasphemy with much gusto, to the delight of his gullible hearers. 


He said: "You need economic empowerment to raise the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is very heavy, you need resources to lift it up".


To start with, in lifting and exalting the name of Jesus; giving him a name above every name, what material resources did God use to do that?


Did God have to lavish his church with so much resources and make the apostles so rich materially in order to lift the name of Jesus?


It's an insult & blasphemy to say the name of Jesus needs material resources/riches to be lifted up.


When in John 12:32-33, Jesus himself said if i be lifted up from the earth i will draw all men to me, was he not referring to his cross (his suffering, death, shame & reproach)?


As poor and unlearned fishermen, the apostles of Jesus were lifting the name of Jesus everywhere, speaking in his name with such boldness that those who saw them, knowing they were unlearned, knew that they had been with Jesus. See Acts 4:13.


They didn't have to come to the corridors of power/any so called place of influence to lift the name of Jesus.

Even when the apostles were brought before the rulers(so called corridors of power) it was because the rulers were mad that these poor and unlearned men were lifting the name of Jesus and filling the entire Jerusalem with their doctrine/teaching of Christ. 


They were already lifting the name of Jesus and didn't have to come to any so called corridors of power to do that; infact the corridors of power/rulers commanded & threatened them to stop lifting the name of Jesus yet they went forth everywhere lifting the name of Jesus. See Acts 4:1-20.


Secondly, they didn't need material resources to lift the name of Jesus. 

At the beautiful gate Peter said: "silver and gold have i none, but such as i have give i thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk". Acts 3:1-6


He didn't need silver and gold to lift the name of Jesus, but covetous preachers today are preaching and telling men that they need silver and gold to lift the name of Jesus.

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