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Pope Francis Caught Lying About Catholic Church Sexual Abuse By Priests In Chile, Covered It Up

Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up.

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Pope Francis received a victim’s letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope’s recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter’s author and members of Francis’ own sex- abuse commission have told The Associated Press.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pope Francis came in to “clean up” the Catholic Church, promising “zero tolerance” for priests who sexually abused thier followers. But sadly, this has not been the case. In the most explosive revelations to date, Pope Francis has been caught lying about widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Chile, and about the letter hand-delivered to him written by Juan Carlos Cruz exposing it all. 

The fact that Pope Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the AP, challenges his insistence that he has “zero tolerance” for sex abuse and cover-ups. It also calls into question his stated empathy with abuse survivors, compounding the most serious crisis of his five-year papacy.

“And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.” Revelation 17:5,6 (KJV)

The scandal exploded last month when Francis’ trip to South America was marred by protests over his vigorous defense of Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused by victims of covering up the abuse by the Rev. Fernando Karadima. During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as “slander,” seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima’s crimes.

On the plane home, confronted by an AP reporter, the pope said: “You, in all good will, tell me that there are victims, but I haven’t seen any, because they haven’t come forward.”

But members of the pope’s Commission for the Protection of Minors say that in April 2015, they sent a delegation to Rome specifically to hand-deliver a letter to the pope about Barros. The letter from Juan Carlos Cruz detailed the abuse, kissing and fondling he says he suffered at Karadima’s hands, which he said Barros and others witnessed and ignored.

Four members of the commission met with Francis’ top abuse adviser, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, explained their objections to Francis’ recent appointment of Barros as a bishop in southern Chile, and gave him the letter to deliver to Francis.

“When we gave him (O’Malley) the letter for the pope, he assured us he would give it to the pope and speak of the concerns,” then-commission member Marie Collins told the AP. “And at a later date, he assured us that that had been done.”

Cruz, who now lives and works in Philadelphia, heard the same later that year.

“Cardinal O’Malley called me after the pope’s visit here in Philadelphia and he told me, among other things, that he had given the letter to the pope — in his hands,” he said in an interview at his home Sunday.

Neither the Vatican nor O’Malley responded to multiple requests for comment.

While the 2015 summit of Francis’ commission was known and publicized at the time, the contents of Cruz’s letter — and a photograph of Collins handing it to O’Malley — were not disclosed by members. Cruz provided the letter, and Collins provided the photo, after reading an AP story that reported Francis had claimed to have never heard from any Karadima victims about Barros’ behavior.

The Barros affair first caused shockwaves in January 2015 when Francis appointed him bishop of Osorno, Chile, over the objections of the leadership of Chile’s bishops’ conference and many local priests and laity. They accepted as credible the testimony against Karadima, a prominent Chilean cleric who was sanctioned by the Vatican in 2011 for abusing minors. Barros was a Karadima protege, and according to Cruz and other victims, he witnessed the abuse and did nothing.

“Holy Father, I write you this letter because I’m tired of fighting, of crying and suffering,” Cruz wrote in Francis’ native Spanish. “Our story is well known and there’s no need to repeat it, except to tell you of the horror of having lived this abuse and how I wanted to kill myself.”

Cruz and other survivors had for years denounced the cover-up of Karadima’s crimes, but were dismissed as liars by the Chilean church hierarchy and the Vatican’s own ambassador in Santiago, who refused their repeated requests to meet before and after Barros was appointed.

After Francis’ comments backing the Chilean hierarchy caused such an outcry in Chile, he was forced last week to do an about-face: The Vatican announced it was sending in its most respected sex-crimes investigator to take testimony from Cruz and others about Barros.

In the letter to the pope, Cruz begs for Francis to listen to him and make good on his pledge of “zero tolerance.”

“Holy Father, it’s bad enough that we suffered such tremendous pain and anguish from the sexual and psychological abuse, but the terrible mistreatment we received from our pastors is almost worse,” he wrote.

Cruz goes on to detail in explicit terms the homo-eroticized nature of the circle of priests and young boys around Karadima, the charismatic preacher whose El Bosque community in the well-to-do Santiago neighborhood of Providencia produced dozens of priestly vocations and five bishops, including Barros.

He described how Karadima would kiss Barros and fondle his genitals, and do the same with younger priests and teens, and how young priests and seminarians would fight to sit next to Karadima at the table to receive his affections.

“More difficult and tough was when we were in Karadima’s room and Juan Barros — if he wasn’t kissing Karadima — would watch when Karadima would touch us — the minors — and make us kiss him, saying: ‘Put your mouth near mine and stick out your tongue.’ He would stick his out and kiss us with his tongue,” Cruz told the pope. “Juan Barros was a witness to all this innumerable times, not just with me but with others as well.”

“Juan Barros covered up everything that I have told you,” he added.

Barros has repeatedly denied witnessing any abuse or covering it up. “I never knew anything about, nor ever imagined, the serious abuses which that priest committed against the victims,” he told the AP recently. “I have never approved of nor participated in such serious, dishonest acts, and I have never been convicted by any tribunal of such things.”

For the Osorno faithful who have opposed Barros as their bishop, the issue isn’t so much a legal matter requiring proof or evidence, as Barros was a young priest at the time and not in a position of authority over Karadima. It’s more that if Barros didn’t “see” what was happening around him and doesn’t find it problematic for a priest to kiss and fondle young boys, he shouldn’t be in charge of a diocese where he is responsible for detecting inappropriate sexual behavior, reporting it to police and protecting children from pedophiles like his mentor.

Cruz had arrived at Karadima’s community in 1980 as a vulnerable teenager, distraught after the recent death of his father. He has said Karadima told him he would be like a spiritual father to him, but instead sexually abused him.

Based on testimony from Cruz and other former members of the parish, the Vatican in 2011 removed Karadima from ministry and sentenced him to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” for his crimes. Now 87, he lives in a home for elderly priests in Santiago; he hasn’t commented on the scandal and the home has declined to accept calls or visits from the news media.

The victims also testified to Chilean prosecutors, who opened an investigation into Karadima after they went public with their accusations in 2010. Chilean prosecutors had to drop charges because too much time had passed, but the judge running the case stressed that it wasn’t for lack of proof.

While the victims’ testimony was deemed credible by both Vatican and Chilean prosecutors, the local church hierarchy clearly didn’t believe them, which might have influenced Francis’ view. Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz has acknowledged he didn’t believe the victims initially and shelved an investigation. He was forced to reopen it after the victims went public.

He is now one of the Argentine pope’s key cardinal advisers.

By the time he finally got his letter into the pope’s hands in 2015, Cruz had already sent versions to many other people, and had tried for months to get an appointment with the Vatican ambassador. The embassy’s Dec. 15, 2014, email to Cruz — a month before Barros was appointed — was short and to the point:

“The apostolic nunciature has received the message you emailed Dec. 7 to the apostolic nuncio,” it read, “and at the same time communicates that your request has been met with an unfavorable response.”

One could argue that Francis didn’t pay attention to Cruz’s letter, since he receives thousands of letters every day from faithful around the world. He can’t possibly read them all, much less remember the contents years later. He might have been tired and confused after a weeklong trip to South America when he told an airborne press conference that victims never came forward to accuse Barros of cover-up.

But this was not an ordinary letter, nor were the circumstances under which it arrived in the Vatican.

Francis had named O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, to head his Commission for the Protection of Minors based on his credibility in having helped clean up the mess in Boston after the U.S. sex abuse scandal exploded there in 2002. The commission gathered outside experts to advise the church on protecting children from pedophiles and educating church personnel about preventing abuse and cover-ups.

The four commission members who were on a special subcommittee dedicated to survivors had flown to Rome specifically to speak with O’Malley about the Barros appointment and to deliver Cruz’s letter. A press release issued after the April 12, 2015, meeting read: “Cardinal O’Malley agreed to present the concerns of the subcommittee to the Holy Father.”

Commission member Catherine Bonnet, a French child psychiatrist who took the photo of Collins handing the letter to O’Malley, said the commission members had decided to descend on Rome specifically when O’Malley and other members of the pope’s group of nine cardinal advisers were meeting, so that O’Malley could put it directly into the pope’s hands.

“Cardinal O’Malley promised us when Marie gave to him the letter of Juan Carlos that he will give to Pope Francis,” she said.

O’Malley’s spokesman in Boston referred requests for comment to the Vatican. Neither the Vatican press office, nor officials at the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, responded to calls and emails seeking comment.

But O’Malley’s remarkable response to Francis’ defense of Barros and to his dismissal of the victims while he was in Chile, is perhaps now better understood.

In a rare rebuke of a pope by a cardinal, O’Malley issued a statement Jan. 20 in which he said the pope’s words were “a source of great pain for survivors of sexual abuse,” and that such expressions had the effect of abandoning victims and relegating them to “discredited exile.”

A day later, Francis apologized for having demanded “proof” of wrongdoing by Barros, saying he meant merely that he wanted to see “evidence.” But he continued to describe the accusations against Barros as “calumny” and insisted he had never heard from any victims.

Even when told in his airborne press conference Jan. 21 that Karadima’s victims had indeed placed Barros at the scene of Karadima’s abuse, Francis said: “No one has come forward. They haven’t provided any evidence for a judgment. This is all a bit vague. It’s something that can’t be accepted.”

He stood by Barros, saying: “I’m certain he’s innocent,” even while saying that he considered the testimony of victims to be “evidence” in a cover-up investigation.

“If anyone can give me evidence, I’ll be the first to listen,” he said.

Cruz said he felt like he had been slapped when he heard those words. “I was upset,” he said, “and at the same time I couldn’t believe that someone so high up like the pope himself could lie about this.” source

 

 

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The Radical Left Turns On The Democratic Party As The Democratic Socialists Of America Make Their Authoritarian Power Play For Control Of Base

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America At A Political Crossroads As Democratic Socialists Make Their Move And History Warns What Happens When Extremes Turn Fear Into Power

The Democratic Party spent years feeding the radical Left, excusing its rhetoric, empowering its activists and pretending that socialism was merely a more compassionate form of liberalism. Now the movement is growing beyond the party’s control. The Democratic Socialists of America are no longer content to protest from the sidelines; they want candidates, political offices, institutions and eventually the machinery of government itself. The Democratic establishment believed it could use the socialists for votes, but the socialists appear determined to use the Democratic Party as their vehicle to power.

“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 (KJB)

That places America at a dangerous political crossroads. Germany faced its own version of this crisis during the collapse of the Weimar Republic, when communist revolutionaries and militant nationalists battled for control of a frightened, divided and economically wounded nation. The rise of communism terrified millions of Germans, and Adolf Hitler exploited that fear by presenting the Nazi Party as the only force strong enough to restore order. The radicals on the Left strengthened the radicals on the Right, and the radicals on the Right used the threat from the Left to justify increasingly authoritarian power.

That is the trap now beginning to appear in America. As the revolutionary Left becomes louder, more aggressive and more openly hostile toward capitalism, private property, law enforcement and the constitutional order, millions of Americans will naturally demand someone strong enough to stop it. But desperation can make a nation surrender its liberties to the very leaders who promise to save it. One side declares that the system must be dismantled, while the other insists that extraordinary power is necessary to preserve it. In that atmosphere, constitutional restraints begin to look like weaknesses, political opponents become enemies and authoritarianism is marketed as protection.

Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin were not harmless revolutionaries or misunderstood reformers. They were totalitarian, murderous rulers whose governments imprisoned, starved, purged and killed tens of millions of human beings. Any political movement that romanticizes these men, excuses their crimes or borrows their revolutionary language should be treated as a flashing warning sign. But Americans must also understand that fear of communism has historically been used to elevate dictators, militarize politics and silence lawful opposition. The answer to Marxist revolution is not fascist reaction, both roads lead away from liberty.

America is therefore under political siege from more than one direction. The deepest danger is not simply the rise of the DSA or any single faction. It is the collapse of the political center that once recognized opponents as fellow citizens, elections as legitimate and constitutional limits as binding. When both sides become convinced that losing an election means losing the country forever, compromise becomes treason and political violence begins to appear justified. The Democratic Party is alarmed because it is beginning to realize that the DSA does not merely want a seat at the table. It wants to rebuild the table, choose who may sit there and remove those who refuse to submit. Meanwhile, an increasingly angry Right may decide that only concentrated power can defeat the socialist threat. That is how a free people become trapped between revolution and reaction, each side using the other to frighten the public into surrendering more power.

The answer to this problem is not “more Trump” and more “MAGA”, the answer is found in the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Indepence. This is how the “grand experiment” continues, and the ignoring of these things is how it will come to an end.

America does not have to repeat Germany’s descent, but history is sounding the alarm. Our nation must reject socialism, political violence, totalitarian romanticism and authoritarian government—regardless of which party or personality offers them. The real battle is not simply Democrat against Republican or Left against Right. It is constitutional liberty against every movement that believes its cause is so righteous that laws, elections and individual rights may be pushed aside. America is standing at the crossroads, and the road it chooses will determine whether the republic survives. The political siege is real, but the choice is not between communist revolution and authoritarian retaliation. The choice is between preserving constitutional government and allowing fear, rage and ideological extremism to tear it apart.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Closing Ceremonies For The FIFA World Cup Finals In New Jersey Featured The All-Seeing Eye Of Horus And The New World Order

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FIFA World Cup Finals Transform Into A New World Order Spectacle As A Massive All-Seeing Eye Stares Out From The Heart Of Mystery Babylon Foreshadowing The Coming Antichrist

That colossal all-seeing eye staring out from the FIFA World Cup Finals yesterday at the Meadowlands Stadium is the perfect emblem of the New World Order. Humanity gathered into one arena, surrounded by technology, united beneath a single unblinking gaze. The dark sphere at the center becomes the pupil, the exploding light forms the iris, and the surrounding skyscrapers point toward it like the spokes of an emerging global system. The New World Order to be precise. Also contained within that image is a a giant X behind the eye, a nod to the coming Antichrist, and the surrounding imagery suggestively reminsicient of a nuclear attack. At the very least, none of it had anything to do with a soccer match. The best part? It was watched by one/fifth of the entire world, just about 2 billion people.

“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.” Revelation 18:2,3 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, that is precisely how the New World Order presents itself. It doesn’t announce chains, tyranny and servitude; it promises unity, security, peace, protection and global cooperation. The all-seeing eye declares that nothing will remain private, independent or beyond the reach of the system. Artificial intelligence, facial recognition, biometric identification, digital currency and constant surveillance are constructing a technological imitation of omniscience—Satan’s counterfeit attempt to see everything, record everything and ultimately control everyone. And I’m sure it’s just a crazy coincidence, but this is exactly the world we live in right now. Because sports garner the attention of the entire world, the big sporting events are used to broadcast these predictive programming messages. At the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show, it was Katy Perry riding a Beast and promoting Black Magic. At the 2020 Halftime Show, we saw Jay-Z and Beyonce dancing in the middle of the All-Seeing Eye throwing Illuminati symbolism. At the 2019 Eurovision, the world watched singer Madonna dressed as the biblical Antichrist, mocking Jesus on the cross. Then, we had the scariest one of them all, at the opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics that turned out to be perfect predictive programming for the 2020 COVID Plannedemic. So what happened yesterday at the FIFA World Cup Finals in New Jersey was not only not surprising, it was expected, and they did not disappoint. Today we get you up to speed with global events that are all pointing to the direct fulfillment of Bible prophecy. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

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THE BIBLE BELIEVERS SUNDAY SERVICE: Lending Unto The Lord

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Lending Unto The LORD Means Every Gift Given To The Poor, The Widow, The Fatherless And The Prisoner Is Entered Into An Eternal Account In Heaven

When the King James Bible says that showing pity to the poor is “lending unto the LORD,” it reveals an astonishing truth about Heaven’s accounting: the helpless may receive the gift, but God personally accepts responsibility for the debt. The orphan cannot repay the medicine that saved his life, the widow cannot return the food that sustained her, and the prisoner may never meet the person who placed a Bible within his reach, but none of that matters. The Lord sees every sack of rice, every gallon of clean water, every King James Bible, every prayer and every sacrificial dollar. What disappears from our hands on earth is entered into an account in Heaven, and the signature guaranteeing its repayment belongs to Almighty God.

“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.” Proverbs 19:17 (KJB)

One day, at the Judgment Seat of Christ, we ma finally discover what those gifts accomplished. We may meet children from Glory Fellowship Orphanage who lived because medicine arrived, families spared from disease because clean water began flowing, prisoners whose chains were broken by the word of God, and forgotten widows who knew that somebody cared. We gave what was temporary; God produced something eternal. We supplied water, food, medicine and Bibles—but the Lord transformed those things into preserved lives, answered prayers and rescued souls. That is the breathtaking promise of Proverbs 19:17 – when we help someone who has no possible way to repay us, the Lord steps forward and says, “Put it on My account—and I will pay it again.”

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Lending Unto The Lord: Heaven’s Accounting for the Widows, the Orphans, the Poor and the Prisoner

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“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.” Proverbs 19:17 (KJB)

Central Truth

When we give to people who cannot repay us, the Lord places Himself on the other side of the transaction. The poor may receive the gift, but God assumes the debt—and God never forgets what He owes.

“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Hebrews 6:10-12 (KJB)

I. God Personally Identifies With the Forgotten

The world measures people by their usefulness, influence and ability to return a favor. God looks especially upon those who have no influence and nothing with which to repay us.

“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.” Psalm 68:5 (KJB)

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;” Isaiah 61:1 (KJB)

Widows, orphans, the poor and prisoners are not invisible to God. He identifies Himself as their Defender. Therefore, the way we treat the helpless reveals something about the condition of our hearts toward the Lord.

Truth: God notices the people whom society overlooks.

Application: When we look into the faces of the children at Glory Fellowship Orphanage, we are looking at children whose Father and Defender is God Himself.

II. Compassion Must Become Action

Proverbs 19:17 does not merely describe someone who feels sorry for the poor. It speaks of “that which he hath given.” Biblical pity moves from the heart to the hands.

“My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” 1 John 3:18 (KJB)

“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” 1 John 3:17 (KJB)

Compassion purchased medicine. Compassion delivered fresh water. Compassion installed a 10,000-liter tank. Compassion must now help dig a permanent well.

Truth: Sympathy sees the need; empathy and compassion does something about it. Sympathy is feeling care and concern for someone else’s misfortune, Empathy is stepping into someone else’s shoes and “feeling what they feel”. Compassion is empathy combined with a proactive desire to help.

Application: We should ask, “What has God placed within my power to do?”

“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” Isaiah 6:8 (KJB)

In his Bible next to Isaiah 6:8, evangelist DL Moody wrote “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will do”

III. Giving to the Helpless Is Lending Unto the LORD

Lending unto the LORD is one of the most astonishing statements in Scripture. The Lord does not say that giving to the poor is merely like lending to Him. He receives it as a personal loan made directly to Him.

The recipient is unable to repay:

  • The widow has no husband to provide for her.
  • The orphan has no father to defend him.
  • The poor possesses nothing to return.
  • The prisoner has no freedom, influence or opportunity to reward us.

That is precisely why God steps forward and says, in effect, “Put it on My account.”

“If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself. If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;” Philemon 1:17,18 (KJB)

Truth: The inability of the recipient to repay is what makes the Lord’s promise so powerful.

Application: We should not ask what these children can ever do for us. We should ask what we can do for the Lord by doing something for them.

IV. Pure Religion Remembers the Fatherless and Widows

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” James 1:27 (KJB)

Pure religion is more than preaching a sermon, singing a hymn or attending a service. It enters the place of affliction and brings the love of God with it. The word “visit” means far more than making a social call. It carries the idea of looking after someone, caring for that person and becoming involved in the need.

Truth: True faith reaches people where they are hurting.

Application: Our ministry to the Glory Fellowship children is not separate from preaching the gospel. It is one of the ways we demonstrate the reality of the gospel we preach.

V. Remembering Prisoners Is Part of Christian Ministry

“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.” Hebrews 13:3 (KJB)

A prisoner can easily become nothing more than a number. God commands us to remember that there is still a soul inside that cell.

This is why sending King James Bibles into prisons matters. A prisoner may never meet the person who paid for his Bible, but God knows who gave, who prayed, who packed the box and who made the delivery possible.

“I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Matthew 25:36 (KJB)

Matthew 25 has its doctrinal setting connected with the nations and Christ’s return, but its words reveal the Lord’s heart toward those who are suffering and forgotten.

Truth: Walls, bars and criminal records do not place a soul beyond the reach of God.

Application: A Bible placed in a prisoner’s hands may continue producing fruit long after the giver has gone home to be with the Lord.

VI. God Keeps a Perfect Record of Every Good Work

Human beings forget. Organizations lose records. Recipients may never know our names. But Heaven’s books never lose an entry.

“Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.” Ephesians 6:8 (KJB)

“For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” Hebrews 6:10 (KJB)

Notice the strength of that statement: for God to forget faithful service would be unrighteous—and God cannot be unrighteous.

Truth: Nothing done for the Lord is ever wasted, overlooked or forgotten.

Application: Even when nobody applauds, publishes a photograph or says thank you, God records the deed.

VII. The Lord’s Repayment Is Not Merely Financial

“Pay him again” should not be reduced to a promise that giving ten dollars will automatically produce twenty dollars. God is not operating a heavenly investment scheme. Charismatics like Kenneth Copeland, Jesse DuPlantis, Andrew Wommack, Alan Dideo and others  teach something called “The 100 Fold Return” and it is a blasphemous perversion of how God pays people back.

His repayment may include:

  • Present provision in a time of personal need.
  • Spiritual fruit credited to our heavenly account.
  • Souls reached through what we supplied.
  • Treasure preserved in Heaven.
  • Reward at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
  • An eternal inheritance received from the Lord.

“Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.” Philippians 4:17 (KJB)

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:3-5 (KJB)

Paul described giving in the language of heavenly bookkeeping. The gift left the giver’s hand on earth, but fruit was deposited into his account in Heaven.

Truth: We give something temporary, but God can return something eternal.

Application: A dollar given for medicine is quickly spent, but the love, testimony and gospel fruit produced through it may remain forever.

VIII. The Full Repayment Comes at the Judgment Seat of Christ

The Christian does not work to earn salvation. Salvation is the free gift of God, received by grace through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. But after salvation, our service will be examined and rewarded.

“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.” 2 Corinthians 5:10 (KJB)

“Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.” 1 Corinthians 3:8 (KJB)

“And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.” Colossians 3:23–24 (KJB)

At the Judgment Seat of Christ, the Lord may reveal consequences we never saw on earth:

  • The child who survived because medicine was provided.
  • The family spared from disease because clean water became available.
  • The prisoner who was saved after receiving a King James Bible.
  • The widow who continued because someone helped her through a desperate season.
  • The missionary who remained on the field because someone quietly supported him.
  • The generations affected because one well was drilled.

That may be part of the wonder of repayment: discovering that a seemingly small act of obedience produced an eternal harvest.

IX. The Greatest Giving Expects Nothing From the Recipient

“But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.” Luke 14:13–14 (KJB)

“For they cannot recompense thee” is the heart of the matter. If we give only to those who can return the favor, we have conducted business. When we give to those who cannot repay us, we have acted by faith.

Truth: What the recipient cannot repay, the Lord promises to remember.

Application: The safest investment on earth may be a gift placed into the hands of someone who has absolutely no way to pay us back.

X. We Are Laying Hold on Eternal Life

“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.” 1 Timothy 6:17–19 (KJB)

Money is uncertain, but the living God is certain. Everything we retain on earth will eventually be left behind. What we give in obedience to God is transferred into an account that death cannot touch.

Truth: We cannot take earthly possessions with us, but we can send treasure ahead.

Application: The medicine, water tank and proposed well are not simply ministry expenses. They are eternal investments placed into the hands of the Lord.

What Might the LORD’s Repayment Be Like?

Imagine standing before Jesus Christ and seeing the full story for the first time!!

You see children who lived because medicine reached them in time. You see others who escaped typhoid because clean water began flowing. You meet souls who heard the gospel because their physical suffering was relieved by Christians who cared. You discover that one act of giving continued producing fruit for years after you had forgotten making it.

Then the Lord—the One who saw every sacrifice, heard every prayer and recorded every gift—rewards you for what His grace enabled you to do.

We gave money; He returns eternal treasure.
We gave water; He reveals lives preserved.
We gave Bibles; He shows us souls reached.
We helped the forgotten; He proves that He never forgot us.

Closing Challenge

The question is not merely, “How much can I afford to give?” The deeper question is, “How much do I believe the Lord’s promise?” If God truly says that helping the poor is lending directly unto Him, then no gift given in faith is lost. No act of compassion is wasted. No sacrifice is forgotten. The widow, orphan, prisoner and poor person may never repay us—but the Lord has signed His name to the debt.

And one day, perhaps much sooner than we think, the books will be opened, the hidden fruit will be revealed, and the Lord Jesus Christ will pay it all back in a currency that will last forever. Now, where will the LORD repay us for what he lent unto Him? At the Judgment Seat of Christ that will take place in Heaven following the Rapture.

“Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is. If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.” 1 Corinthians 3:8-14 (KJB)

It is here that God will “pay you back” for whatever you went through, whatever you spent, whatever you sacrificed and for whatever you had to give up to finish the course He gave you to do. And Christian, believe me when I tell you, that, in that day, when God is giving you your heavenly reward, your inheritance, you will find He is paying you back at a 100-1 ratio. Beyond your wildest imagination. And you will wish you had done more for His Name.

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Romans 8:16-18 (KJB)

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 (KJB)

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