But, but, but hey you guys, don't you know that Jesus and the disciples were rich and God wants all his children to be rich too?

"Jesus had a nice house, a big house--big enough to have company stay the night with Him at the house. Let me show you His house. Go over to John the first chapter and I'II show you His house....Now, child of God, that's a house big enough to have company stay the night in. There's His house." (John Avanzini, "Believer's Voice of Victory," TBN, January 20, 1991)

"Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can't tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that's a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because Judas was stealing out of that bag." (John Avanzini, "Praise the Lord," TBN, September 15, 1988)

"John 19 tells us that Jesus wore designer clothes. Well, what else you gonna call it? Designer clothes--that's blasphemy. No, that's what we call them today. I mean, you didn't get the stuff He wore off the rack. It wasn't a one-size-fits-all deal. No, this was custom stuff. It was the kind of a garment that kings and rich merchants wore. Kings and rich merchants wore that garment." (John Avanzini, "Believer's Voice of Victory," TBN, January 20, 1991)

"The Bible says that He [Jesus] had a treasurer--a treasury (they called it "the bag"); that they had one man who was the treasurer, named Judas Iscariot; and the rascal was stealing out of the bag for three-and-a-half years and nobody knew that he was stealing. You know why? Because there was so much in it, He couldn't tell. Nobody could tell that anything was missing. If He had three oranges in the bottom of the bag and he stole two of them, don't tell me He wouldn't know that some was missing. Beside that, if Jesus didn't have anything, what do you need a treasury for? A treasury is for surplus. It's not for that which you're spending. It's only for surplus--to hold it until you need to spend it. Therefore, He must have had a whole lot that needed to be held in advance that He wasn't spending. So He must have had more than He was living on." (Fred Price, "Ever Increasing Faith," TBN, November 23, 1990)

"Jesus and the disciples were rich, only rich people could take off for three and a half years." (Fred Price, "Ever Increasing Faith," TBN, November 23, 1990)



"The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see - to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and the disciples were poor and then relating that to you - thinking that you, as a child of God, have to follow Jesus. The Bible says that He has left us an example that we should follow His steps. That's the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. I'm following Jesus' steps." (Fred Price, "Ever Increasing Faith," TBN, December 9, 1990)

"God has displeasure in poverty." (Fred Price, "Ever Increasing Faith," TBN, November 16, 1990)

"The man who holds to poverty rejects the establishment of the covenant. The man who holds to the covenant rejects poverty. Faith in the covenant pleases God. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him." (Gloria Copeland, God's Will is Prosperity

"MONEY come unto me NOW, MONEY come unto me NOW, MONEY come unto me NOW!" (Kenneth Copeland, "Believers Voice of Victory," TBN, December 4, 1999)

"Being poor is a sin." (Robert Tilton, "Success in Life," TBN, December 2, 1990)

"The only time people were poor in the Bible is when they were under a curse." (Robert Tilton, "Success in Life," TBN, December 2 1990)

“What’s the big deal, for goodness sake? What am I supposed to do, drive a Honda?...That’s not in the Bible...I’m sick and tired about hearing about streets of gold {in heaven}. I don’t need gold in heaven. I got to have it now.” (Benny Hinn, interview with Mike Thomas from The Berean Call, January 1992.

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