“Blessed and Highly Favored”?

“Blessed and highly favored”? Is that what God saved you for to bless yourself and just use His Word to get things for yourself? Is it really all about you or Jesus Christ? Did Jesus come just so you could serve yourself, reject intimacy with Him, and just get things from Him? Or, did God send His Son to die a cruel death and shed His blood so you could be redeemed, die to to all that you are, including self-will, and be conformed to the image of His Son? Read Romans 6 and 8. Who’s the real blessed and highly favored One? Jesus Christ is according to the whole counsel of God’s Word. Not you! In fact, you are only saved – if you even are – due to the sheer mercy of God given to depraved, sinful mankind through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only nail-scarred, risen Savior. But many today are being led astray by beguiling wolves who are preaching a false, humanistic gospel that is centered on self and getting stuff for self. This is at the root of the phony, “blessed and highly favored” movement we see so often today in bless me club type circles who are led by ravenous, covetous, greedy wolves. Humanism is simply the religion of self where Jesus Christ is denied and the object of worship is self and making self happy and “blessed and highly favored.”

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” Proverbs 30:12

It’s only those who are not truly given over to the LORD who are being snared in this “strong delusion” sent to them by the LORD Himself due to their love of self and rejection of His daily reign in their personal lives (Luke 19:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12). They are full of self. Their whole life is all about getting more for self and that’s why people buy into ear-tickling, selfish teachings like this and make charlatans rich (1 Timothy 6:6-12).     Here’s your Savior-rejecting, self worshiping “Blessed and highly favored” generation defined by the LORD:

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. 9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.” 2 Timothy 3:1-9

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