So Mike Huckabee went on NBC’s Meet the Press program back on 2/10/2008 and basically defended his buddy, prosperity doctrine heretic Kenneth Copeland.

You can see the video at this link and advance to the 11:25 mark.

Text from the official transcript is below.

Yes Mike Huckabee is standing with that prosperity heresy.

The prosperity doctrine is false and those endorsing godliness as a means for financial gain are devoid of solid foundation.

Avoid the proponents of false gospel.

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• Hillary Clinton Jumps on the Saddleback and Mike Huckabee Defends Kenneth Copeland!

Given some misconceptions about marriage, I felt this post is necessary. And the goal of this post is to help Christians understand one thing. Once you are married it is joined by God. This is not something to claim was not truly joined by God because of circumstance or issues within a marriage. I’m not saying that concessions for divorce don’t exists, they do, but I am saying that no man is to claim God did not join together the marriage. No man should claim God desires divorce either.

If we read the words of the Lord Jesus straight forward for what they are, there is no debate.

God does not leave any wiggle room there. He makes it clear, that once a man takes a wife the two are one flesh and therefore joined. What has been joined was joined by God and man should not separate it. It’s clear divorce is a concession, not the goal or desire of God. And one such concession is noted there. This post is not about divorce, but another divorce concession is noted in 1 Corinthians 7. Again, it is not God’s desire that couples divorce and marriage was not an institution devised for separation from the beginning.

Again, God is not a God of nuance. The account in Mark, written for a non-Hebrew audience where both men and women could under man’s law divorce freely is just as clear. Once married they are no longer 2 but one flesh, not one spirit, but one flesh. One flesh and what God has joined no man should separate.

What if God did not really join them together?

Some claim that two people can be involved even in a first time marriage and that perhaps God did not join it. As if we get to determine via the well being of the household whether God meant something different in the verses noted above. There is no evidence of a marriage not being joined by God in the scripture noted and there is no exception for something like “happiness level”.

But God could not make something where people are not happy.

The usual retort by those who desire to claim God may not join a marriage, is to claim that things are so bad, the two so unequally yoked, that God could not have joined it. This is to claim that quality denotes whether something was ordained by God. This is unbiblical. Let me offer some examples of things fully established by God, that brought discomfort to true children of God.

God allowed Pharaoh his position and although every day of his resistance was a day of slavery and discomfort for the Hebrews, it was all part of God’s plan.

Christians have trials and anyone who is married knows that marriage in its self is a trial of sorts. The degree of trial in a marriage may vary, however it is not for us to claim that it was not ordained by God just because it is uncomfortable at times. Husband and wife should strive to abide by Ephesians 5 and even when one gets out of line the other must show they will not give into temptation outside of God’s command.

What if the person they married is not a recommended spouse according to scripture?

Some who press the “God didn’t join it” theme claim that a Christian might have married someone who was not the kind of person scripture instructs someone to marry. And from this they assert that perhaps God did not join the 2 because of some unequal yoking. Such an assertion is not biblical.

Even someone married to an unregenerate heathen is commanded by God to remain with that spouse so long as it is desired they remain together. Even in unequal yoking the joining of husband and wife is not to be broken. As 1 Corinthians 7:14-16 notes, the unruly one in a marriage could come to righteousness via the more God fearing spouse.

Marriage is a union of flesh, not two spirits

It is important to highlight how marriage is the joining of 2 to become one flesh. With salvation there is a joining via the Holy Spirit to Christ, 1 Corinthians 12:12-14. Marriage is not something sealed via the Holy Spirit into eternity and after this life human marriages end, Luke 20:27-40. The cult of Mormonism makes this among many other errors in claiming marriages go beyond this life. Marriage is not truly equal with salvation (although it is a fleshly example of our union with Christ) and only a facet of this life in flesh. It does not bear the same eternal seal as salvation. This is why God commands that no man should separate a marriage, because it is an institution of this life in flesh. While 2 flesh can depart each other God does not desire it be done.

God knows when we marry, even if done multiple times.

God recognizes when we join with another via fornication or adultery versus a joining in marriage. It is His desire that we marry once and keep that marriage till either spouse dies.

Let’s be true to our word. God is certainly faithful and true to His and we are to follow the example established by His Son Jesus Christ and follow His commandments.

All that is left of the 2 major party candidates are terrible, but here’s some things regarding the 2 current front runners. The 2 most likely to win their respective party’s nomination.

The idolatry over Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is rather insane.

If any of them claims to be a Christian, they need to read 1 Corinthians 10:14 and calm their nerves, he’s only a man. (If they are not Christians, they still need to calm down and learn about the Lord Jesus.)

Obama, the supposed man of faith, but what about the babies?

Then there is John Sidney McLame McCain III. Watch him flip flop on efforts to have government give special sanction to an abomination.

On a 2004 questionnaire McCain affirmed he feels homosexuals should be granted “civil unions”. McCain is trying to play both sides of the issue. Saying he is against gay “marriage”, yet he’s trying to grant all like benefits and recognition via a play on words.

And what about the babies Senator McCain?

Just like Mitt Romney who has endorsed him. His position on the issue changes depending on the likelihood of whatever he says winning him votes.

Just speaking for myself, I can’t vote for anything the Democrats or Republicans have left to offer.

This is a concept that many don’t properly grasp. Those who come to understand it, they come to understand it as the Holy Spirit leads, by the drawing of the Father.

Our brother Oct31st1517 (Mark) has produced a video on this topic of what “Son of God” really means.

Jesus made it so clear in His own words.

Jesus made it fully well known that He is God and that is why those against him picked up stones, to try and kill him right then for saying that. (Go read the next verse yourself.) They did not know He was the Christ and I AM, fully One with the Father.

The bottom line is this. If Jesus is not God, than there was no perfect sacrifice made for sin. This would mean the elect still have outstanding sin, just as was always the case with animal sacrifices and we’re all going to hell. Jesus is God and was the perfect sacrifice for sin, the One who knew no sin. (Hebrews 10) Believe on Him and be saved.

The Baltimore Sun has produced a lengthy article about the Bryant’s pending divorce. The rest of this post assumes you will take a moment to read that full 2 page article in full.

There’s a lot I could say, but I’ve already said plenty on this. The issue I need to raise in this post is that as the article mentions regarding the AME Church organization:

There is no punishment for pastors who get divorced, Richardson said, though the conference might require a pastor to apologize to the congregation or not preach for a period of time.

This is a serious problem. Now granted, scripture does not condone this psedo-Roman Catholic model of acting like the title “Bishop” is different from the title “Elder” and placing one over the other. But Jamal’s club obviously does not have good internal oversight.

A local church should have a group of elders on equal footing, with one as the speaking elder. If an elder gets out of line, he is to be removed and if it is the speaking elder that must be removed, another of the elders should assume the role of speaking elder. That is NOT how things are at most church assemblies. So with a group like the AME organization, it is assumed the “Bishops” will address problems at a local church assembly.

Well what can the AME organization leaders do? Ask him to sit down for a while. They can’t remove him and they are not talking about disassociating from him.

So let me just post what the Bible, the Word of God, the real documented authority says about these matters.

1 Corinthians 5:9-13 notes, that we are not to simply “pray” for a so-called brother that continues in immoral activity, we are to fully disassociate from them. To the point of not even eating with them. Gizelle Bryant has found a need to disassociate herself from her husband because of his continual immoral behavior, but all the AME organization might do is talk about it, have him say “sorry” and maybe sit him down for a while. Unfortunately, for a church leader, that does NOT fulfill the command of scripture. With lay members, having them apologize and return to fellowship is within scripture’s commands. However, for a leader, they are to be men of a higher standard. When we look at 1 Timothy 3, it is IMPOSSIBLE for a church elder/bishop/pastor/overseer/(whatever other titles have been made for that man looked to as the church leader) to be a divorced man with such a bad reputation that it’s a full spread in the local city newspaper. We see the same in Titus 1. In 1 Timothy 5 we see that good elders are to be appreciated, given a salary, but elders caught in sin are to be rebuked as an example to all the others. Verse 21 notes that it is to be done WITHOUT PARTIALITY, meaning no favoritism. It is to be the blanket rule for all. Verse 22 notes that no man is to be given a role in church leadership quickly (“Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily”), because fellow church leaders should not do anything that might burden them with another man’s sins (“and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.”). The bottom line is that Jamal-Harrison Bryant was assuming church leadership and accepted by others as such too early, even before he got married, given he started “Empowerment Temple” in 2000, but has only been married 5 1/2 years according to the article. He is a man who was viewed as a church leader too hastily and one of the passages of scripture I mentioned fully details why he should be no longer viewed as a church leader.

If the AME Church organization does not fully disassociate from Jamal-Harrison Bryant, while knowing what he’s done and is likely to continue doing, they bring condemnation on themselves by who they laid their hands on.

I found a good video that discusses the issues facing Jamal-Harrison Bryant. The only thing that might work in Bryant’s favor is that his sins are known by all now and perhaps it will cause him to repent of sexually immoral behavior.

But with Jamal-Harrison Bryant, there is more. He’s promoting the following event.

Another conference full of false doctrines. His terrible doctrine THAT IS NOT the true Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. His doctrine and those associating with him is denounced in 1 Timothy 6 and 1 Timothy 2:11-15. The money preaching is bad. Tossing people into leadership roles that don’t qualify including himself and women into roles of leadership and instruction over men is bad.

Perhaps the most abhorrent of those that will be at Jamal-Harrison Bryant’s “Empowerment Island Encounter” which I call PIMP ISLAND is Mike Murdock. See this most egregious of pimps in action in the video footage below.

If you read the scriptures I’ve already noted, you’ll know why that is total sin.

Flee these people that do evil and even flee those that maintain relationships with them. Given the evil is well known and saints should be fleeing them, not flocking to them.

Related post:

• On the Jamal-Harrison Bryant Divorce Matter. News of the Alleged 17 Year Old With Child Comes Out.
• Media Starting to Cover Jamal-Harrison Bryant Divorce. No Reconciliation! How Much Does He Really Make?
• Jamal-Harrison Bryant and His Wife Gizzelle Bryant are Heading to Divorce Court.
• Jamal-Harrison Bryant Pimping for TBN with Steve Munsey – Night 5 of the TBN Pimp-a-thon! (Video)
• How Heretic Jamal-Harrison Bryant Eroded the Rules for Bishops in the AME Church.
• Bentley, The Passion of the Pulpit Pimp!
• The Prosperity and Word of Faith Movement are a Literal Joke!