00:03:09.120Why I think she's extremely problematic.
00:03:11.240Why I'm concerned about her having this kind of position of influence.
00:03:16.080Even while, of course, I continue to hope that the White House is successful in all of its good endeavors.
00:03:24.620And any good goal that even her faith office has that actually is in alignment with Scripture, I hope they're effective in accomplishing that.
00:03:35.000But more than anything, I want Paula White to repent of the false prosperity gospel that she not only believes herself, but also that she has propagated to millions of people around the world for many years.
00:03:50.740And most recently, she did some kind of special or commercial where she encourages her viewers to, quote unquote, honor God during Passover.
00:04:01.640And in return, they can expect seven special blessings from God, including a personal angel, physical healing and prosperity.
00:04:11.700And then later in her sermon, and this is very common with these prosperity preachers, she says, you should offer $1,000 to me and to my ministry, to Paula White and what she is in charge of.
00:04:28.160And she indicates, seems to indicate that these offerings will contribute to the blessing.
00:04:34.040So here is a clip from her latest commercial special, Sat One.
00:04:38.680And I believe that when you honor God on Passover, starting on April 12th at sundown through Good Friday on the 18th and concluding on Easter Sunday, you can receive these seven supernatural blessings for you and your house.
00:04:52.700According to Exodus 23, God will assign an angel to you.
00:05:06.960And he'll give a special year of blessing.
00:05:09.140For your special Passover offering of $1,000 or more as the Holy Spirit leads, you will also receive the beautiful 10-inch Waterford Crystal Cross.
00:05:21.540And you might laugh at this and you might think, how could anyone buy into something so gimmicky?
00:05:27.800But I promise you have people in your life, especially older people, who have dwindling savings, but who believe this, that if they sow a seed of faith, that's often the language used, then God will repay them with some kind of blessing.
00:05:44.860Whether it's a relationship help, or whether it's a promotion at work, or whether it's physical healing from one of their ailments.
00:05:54.660And they put their hope in this, that God is some kind of genie, that if I do this, he will do this.
00:06:02.160And she claims to be getting this idea from Exodus 23.
00:06:09.500Exodus 23 is a passage in which Moses is giving instruction and laws to the Israelites about their conduct, about how they are to honor the Sabbath, how they are to celebrate in their festivals.
00:06:24.920He is also telling them about God's promise to help conquer Canaan.
00:06:29.400Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.
00:07:14.760We can also read in John 1 that New Testament Jesus is God.
00:07:19.440He is the God that was there in the beginning.
00:07:21.860Nothing that was made was made without Jesus, without the fullness of this triune God.
00:07:28.320So, there are principles and characteristics of God that we can see in the Old Testament that we know are still true today.
00:07:34.880But we have to have the discernment, the wisdom, to be able to see what was true at a particular time, at a particular place, for a particular people, and what is true for us today.
00:07:47.780And it certainly takes some navigation and, in some cases, expert interpretation to be able to understand that.
00:07:56.480But really, it also just takes reading comprehension, knowing Scripture, and reading things in context.
00:08:03.100We can deduce from this passage that God is a God who cares about how we worship Him, that He has certain regulations for His people, and that if they honored Him, He would do certain things.
00:08:16.840What we do not see is that these exact instructions apply to Christians today and guarantee us those same blessings.
00:08:26.820Because, see, Jesus has become our cleansing.
00:08:32.580That is why Christians today don't do all of the things that the ancient Israelites did, because we don't have to follow the ceremonial laws anymore.
00:08:48.500He became the fulfillment of the promise.
00:08:51.280And so, while these people are going towards the promised land, that was really just a foreshadowing, a precursor of what God's people, through Christ, will get one day because of Jesus' sacrifice on our behalf.
00:09:08.900And that is eternity with Him in heaven, in the new heavens, and the new earth.
00:09:16.120And so, this is not a passage that we can apply directly to the Christian life today because this was for a particular people at a particular time.
00:09:27.840Again, we can apply some principles, characteristics of God to today, but we cannot apply all of these details to the lives of Christians today.
00:09:37.840Like, if you walked around a city with a wall seven days in a row, that wall isn't necessarily going to fall down like the walls of Jericho did.
00:09:47.180We have to be able to read with discernment and pray for the wisdom that James 5 guarantees us if we ask for it.
00:09:55.500And as soon as I saw this video, which is just absolutely money-grabbing, it's about selfishness, it's about self-enrichment, which is just absolutely evil,
00:10:07.180will not only lead those who propagate this to hell, but it will also lead those who believe this kind of prosperity gospel to hell.
00:10:13.880I thought of Galatians 2.16 and really how this is, it's not just convincing people that giving money is going to guarantee something in return,
00:10:25.320but it's also trying to enslave people to the law.
00:10:30.740That if you do this, if you follow all these stipulations and regulations, honor the Passover.
00:10:36.960I mean, Christians don't even talk like that.
00:10:39.060But if you honor the Passover the way that the Jews do or the Jews did, then God will do all of these things for you.