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AMEN.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Current Events-Controversial preaching by female in church

http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/highlight/christians-react-to-victoria-osteens-controvecrsial-sermon/540e11b5fe3444535b0001dc?cps=gravity_2598_-548176807366280893

Here's Victoria Osteen, speaking to approximately 16,000 attendees, 
I just want to encourage every one of us to realize when we obey God, we're not doing it for God-I mean, that's one way to look at it-we're doing it for ourselves, because God takes pleasure when we're happy," she declares in the undated 36-second clip with her husband standing by her side and nodding. "That's the thing that gives Him the greatest joy...

I completely disagree with the portion of her claim and the notion that God's "greatest joy" is our "happiness". God is pleased when we obey Him because that is both an act of Faith AND Love. Thinking that God just wants us to be "happy" is extremely dangerous because it is undoubtedly a hallway to doing our own will. IT IS VERY VERY DANGEROUS! Moreover, it is simply not scriptural. Nowhere in scripture does it say "be happy because God wants you to be happy" or "it makes God happy when we are happy"...
So, I want you to know this morning: Just do good for your own self. Do good because God wants you to be happy," Osteen continues. "When you come to church, when you worship Him, you're not doing it for God really. You're doing it for yourself, because that's what makes God happy. Amen?
This, again, is severely lacking in truth. Her entire rhetoric revolves around "happiness", both from God's point of view and ours. Doing good for self because God wants me to be happy means im seeking glory for myself and that is borderline blasphemous since me, myself, and my happiness deserve more glory than God according to Osteen.

When I worship God, I do it to please Him. What happens afterwards, whether it is happiness or anything else, is a byproduct of worshiping Him.

Osteen's words are very bold and it would be risky to suggest she is openly advocating for self-worship by way of self-contentment. However, her teaching is erroneous because she places human happiness ahead of God's Glory. And remember, Glory has Wrath and Fury as its cousins...

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