Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, our text this morning is a prosperity gospel promise. You saw it, right there in the text: the correlation between fearing God and experiencing good health, and the correlation between honoring God with your wealth and gaining abundant income in return. So should I preach a prosperity gospel message this morning? Should I declare that what God really desires for you is the abundant life, that He doesn’t want you be to sick and poor, but that He wants you to be rich and be well? Of course I should. God wants you to be healthy. God wants you to give to the church. And God wants you to prosper. But brothers and sisters, this text is not alone! Notice, if you would, what comes next: the chastening of the LORD. Solomon, in his wisdom, noticed that God usually and frequently gives health and wealth to those who honor Him. But He just as frequently gives them chastening. Yahweh God can and will correct you as a father corrects his beloved son. Brothers and sisters, the message of our text this morning is emphatically not “give to get.” Notice that health and wealth do not come to those whose goal is health and wealth! Not at all. Health and wealth are gifts that God generally gives to those whose goal is to fear and honor Him. If you are fearing and honoring God so that you can be healthy and wealthy, then you’re not fearing and honoring God; you’re fearing and honoring health and wealth. Brothers and sisters, the message of our text this morning is that health and wealth come to those whose goal is to honor God with their possessions and their mental abilities.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
