Beware!

Matthew 7:13-15

Jesus warned us…

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing,

but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Matthew 7:15

Your TV is filled with False Prophets

But there were also false prophets among the people,

even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies,

even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.

And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom

the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness

they will exploit you with deceptive words...

2 Peter 2:1-3

The Most Famous of Them All

What is Wrong with Joel Osteen’s Teaching?

That is not Right

Excludes Jesus

On WealthOsteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you don’t struggle in your finances… that you would be free from poverty…that you would not just ‘barely get by’ but have more than enough to pay your bills…

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you don’t struggle in your finances… that you would be free from poverty…that you would not just ‘barely get by’ but have more than enough to pay your bills…

Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.

Matthew 8:20

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you don’t struggle in your finances… that you would be free from poverty…that you would not just ‘barely get by’ but have more than enough to pay your bills…

Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you…

Acts 3:6

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you don’t struggle in your finances… that you would be free from poverty…that you would not just ‘barely get by’ but have more than enough to pay your bills…

…having food and clothing, with these we shall be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare.…

1 Timothy 6:8-9

On HealthOsteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from pain in your body…You are not a sick person trying to get well, you are a well person fighting off sickness…you are healthy and whole, God created you to walk in Divine Health…

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from pain in your body…You are not a sick person trying to get well, you are a well person fighting off sickness…you are healthy and whole, God created you to walk in Divine Health…

So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Then they said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they struck Him with their hands.

John 19:1-3

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from pain in your body…You are not a sick person trying to get well, you are a well person fighting off sickness…you are healthy and whole, God created you to walk in Divine Health…

And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him…

John 19:17-18

On RelationshipsOsteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from discouragement and low self-esteem…God created you to have peace, that you would have good relationships…

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from discouragement and low self-esteem…God created you to have peace, that you would have good relationships…

For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

Matthew 10:34-35

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from discouragement and low self-esteem…God created you to have peace, that you would have good relationships…

He is despised and rejected by men…

Isaiah 53:3

Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Matthew 26:56

On Emotional TurmoilOsteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from worry, stress, depression…God created you that you would not suffer under discouragement, heartache and low self-esteem…

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from worry, stress, depression…God created you that you would not suffer under discouragement, heartache and low self-esteem…

A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.

Isaiah 53:3

Osteen Bible

God’s plan for you is that you live free from worry, stress, depression…God created you that you would not suffer under discouragement, heartache and low self-esteem…

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Luke 22:44

On Freedom and VictoryOsteen Bible

You have a right to live in Total Victory…God has already empowered you…He didn’t create you to be average, but to live in Total Freedom…you are not a victim, you are a victor…

Osteen Bible

You have a right to live in Total Victory…God has already empowered you…He didn’t create you to be average, but to live in Total Freedom…you are not a victim, you are a victor…

He was despised, and we did not esteem him. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.

Luke 22:44

Two Great Problems

Wrong view of Righteousness

Healthy & Rich = Right with God

Poor or Sick = Not Right with God

Ignores Sin and Repentance

From that time Jesus began to preach and to say,

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Matthew 4:18

So they went out and preached that people should repent.

Mark 6:12

repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations

Luke 24:47

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out

Acts 3:19

Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps

the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

Acts 8:22

Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere

to repent

Acts 17:30

The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness,

but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish

but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9

What we’ve got here is a WOLF

Beware!