Emphasis Preaching Journal
God wants us to prosper...
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God wants us to prosper. So say the prosperity gospel preachers (Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now). In selling his birthright Esau sought prosperity. John Calvin claimed that such an action on his part demonstrates that the elder twin was "addicted to gluttony..." (Calvin's Commentaries, Vol. I/2, p. 45). John Wesley says about this what Esau did: "But being of a spiritual nature, his undervaluing it [his birthright] was the greatest profaneness imaginable.