How to Enjoy Prosperity— Lester L. Roloff

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How to Enjoy Prosperity— Lester L. Roloff
Did you know that heaven is talking to you?
A lot of the time you don’t hear; do you?
What if the Lord speaks to you? Are you
tuned-in to the right frequency? You say,
“What is the frequency?” B-I-B-L-E that
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Christian Life.....from page 2
kingdom was the result of his neversatisfied, never-ending ambitions that led
him away from the Word of God.
II Kings continues to reveal how sin
undermined the two kingdoms.
The book of I and II Chronicles are
repetitions of Israel’s history. They
emphasize that the success or failure of a
nation is determined by how they live for
God. After 250 years, the kingdom of
Israel was taken into slavery. Following
this, the Kingdom of Judah continued to
drift away from God, and the people
were taken captive about 125 years later.
Every person who ignores the revelation
of God’s Word must suffer the inevitable
consequences of satanic enslavement.
But there can be a brighter day for the
vilest of backslider as portrayed in the
historic events of Ezra, Nehemiah, and
Esther. God’s great love for fellowship
with man is pictured by the exiles’ return
to Jerusalem to worship God.
The events of the book of Esther, took
place in Babylon—-a type of luxurious
living in the world. There is no mention
of God or prayer in the book of Esther,
and nothing is said about the Scriptures.
Why? Because these are left out of the
lives of worldly- minded Christians who
have allowed the things of the world to
keep them from forsaking all to be in the
place of God’s choice.
The Israelites deserved to die in Persia,
but God in mercy preserved and
protected them.
The book of Job leads us to better
understand the death of the self-life.
Although he was the best man on earth
(1:8), he was also viewed as a man on
his face before God, praying, “I abhor
myself, and repent in dust and ashes”
(42:6).
The first step in the spiritual life is to
abhor one’s whole being-his good points
and his bad points-as expressed by Paul,
the apostle: “For I know that in me (that
is in my flesh), dwelleth no good thing”
(Romans 7:18).
We see how the self-life must be brought
into subjection to His indwelling life.
This means suffering and losing
confidence in human wisdom. Through
the fires of affliction, there is a new
vision of the wisdom and ways of God.
The next step is expressed in the book of
Psalms, which overflows with praise
and prayer to the all-sufficient Lord who
dwells within “both to will and to do of
his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
Seeing our relationship to Christ is the
key to interpreting the Old Testament
symbols and prophecies. In fact, Christ
is the central message of the entire old
Testament Scriptures (Matthew 5:17);
Luke 24:27; John 5:39; Hebrews 10:7)
and the unifying theme within each book
of the Bible: “To Him give all the
prophets witness” (Acts10:4).
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Letters to Box 1177...
Thank you for contending for the faith during
these dark days. My wife and I were
introduced to the radio ministry and
personally to Bro. Roloff while attending
Bible School in Decatur, GA. We continued
to listen while we were in Torrington, CT.
Bro. Roloff fortified our faith while we
labored to begin Harvest Baptist Church.
Thirty-six years later has found us in Naples,
FL. Sadly there is no radio station in our area
that carries your program. The only contact is
with your newsletters and tapes that we
gathered over the years. Please accept the
small offering for the ministry and be assured
we continue to pray for
-W.C.,Naples, FL
I listen to Bro. Roloff’s Family Altar Program
each day in my hometown of Barboursville.
After all these years I thank God for men like
Bro. Roloff who preach God’s Word the way
the Bible says it. I count it a blessing to have
had Bro. Roloff as my pastor and to have
known him and got to worship with him.
-O.S., Barboursville, WV
I want you all to know I enjoy your paper you
send out and I have listened to Brother Roloff
for some time. May the Lord let you keep on
radio until He returns.
-I.T., Seymour, TN
Thanks for spreading the truth. The world
needs to know. Pastor Roloff ës messages are
applicable today as they were years ago. He
was a wise man.
-S.E., Richardson, TX
I want to speak about what the whole world
is concerned about. You can mention this
word, and every businessman’s ears will
prick up. You can get the attention of Wall
Street. I want to preach on “How to Enjoy
Prosperity.” Everybody wants to be
prosperous, but there is only one way.
America is not a prosperous nation; we’ve
had inflation. Any nation as deeply in debt
as America is a bad businessman. All the
nations are in debt. Why is everybody
living on borrowed money? A man who has
to live on borrowed money is a bad
businessman, and a man who can’t pay his
debts is a bad businessman.
How can you be prosperous? What does the
Bible say about prosperity? Does God care
whether or not I pay my bills? Does He
want me to have food to eat and clothes to
wear? The Bible says, “And having food
and raiment let us be therewith content” (I
Timothy 6:8). What is the secret foundation
of real prosperity?
I’m not going to offer you a little piece of
cloth; I don’t have a prosperity cloth. I’m
not going to offer any mustard seed. I’ll
tell you what I am going to offer you. I’m
going to offer you the Bible contact - the
only point of contact there is - and that’s
God’s Book. If you want to be prosperous,
you line up with God, and let God make
you prosperous. If God doesn’t prosper
you, then you’ll never truly be prosperous.
Any prosperity that is not God-given,
Christ-centered, and Bible-inspired is
not true prosperity; you’ll lose it.
I want to talk to you about what the Bible
says about prosperity. You might say,
“What right do you have to speak on
prosperity? What do you know about it?”
Well, what I know about it is what I have
learned from the Bible. Let’s look at some
Scripture: Joshua 1:8, “This book of the
law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but
thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to
all that is written therein: for then thou
shalt make thy way prosperous, and then
thou shalt have good success.” He said to
observe all things that are written therein.
Proverbs 3:6, “In all thy ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Psalm 37:5, “Commit thy way unto the
Lord; trust also in Him, and He shall bring
it to pass.”
III John verse 2: “Beloved, (that’s
Christians, isn’t it?) I wish above all things
that thou mayest prosper.” “Above all
things!” Most of us never get above them,
do we? Most of us live under them, and
most of us are guided by things. Our hands
are full of things, and our time is occupied
with things. Yet, the Bible says in Luke
12:15, “a man’s life consisteth NOT in the
abundance of things which he possesseth.”
Beware of covetousness! Paul said in I
Timothy 6:10, “For the love of money is the
root of all evil.” Once again we read from
III John 2, “Beloved, I wish above all
things that thou mayest prosper and be in
health, even as thy soul prospereth.”
That’s real prosperity - soul prosperity and that’s the kind I’m going to talk
about.
Psalm1:3 “Whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper.” Who’s that? - the man who’s
“planted.” First of all, on the negative side:
(Psalm 1:1) He “walketh not in the counsel
of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful.” On the positive side: (Psalm 1:2)
“His delight is in the law of the Lord.”
(That’s the Word of God - the Bible.) “In
His law doth he meditate day and night.”
Just on Sunday? No Sir! You want to be
prosperous? There’s a way. “And he shall
be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and
whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” You
want to be prosperous? Stay with the Book!
Do you want inflation, or do you want to
prosper? You’ll never become prosperous
or be a good businessman in God’s sight
until you become scriptural in your living.
Matthew 6:24, “No man can serve two
masters; for either he will hate the one, and
love the other; or else he will hold to the
one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve
God and mammon.” That word “mammon”
(we’ll just call it money; we’ll just call it
worldliness; we’ll just call it material
things) you can’t serve it. Now, the verse
didn’t say you can’t make it serve you.
Money is a good servant but a bad master. I
have, if I know my heart, no ulterior motive
in preaching what I’m preaching except to
help you. If you ever learn how to
recognize the use and value of material
things and make them your servants (not
your masters) and use them to glorify
God, then you will have learned one of
life’s choicest lessons.
Most people are slaves of things, and
money, and jobs. And most people work to
keep and not to give. The Bible said we’re
to work with our hands. You know why? In
order to give to them who have need.
Ephesians 4:28, “let him labor, working
with his hands the thing which is good, that
he may have to give to him that needeth.”
Now, that’s the purpose of work. Is that
why you worked today? What is prosperity?
God said that whatsoever you do will
prosper, but He also said that you can’t
serve God and money at the same time.
Look at Luke chapter 16. I’d say this is the
greatest chapter I know anything about (if
we look at it like we ought to) about real
prosperity. He draws the line here in the
book of Luke. In Luke 16:10-11, Jesus said,
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In Memory of...
Harold W. Brubaker from Nova R.
Brubaker, Altoona, Pennsylvania
Ord and Lista Brubaker from
Nova R. Brubaker, Altoona,
Pennsylvania
Gene and Joyce Casey from Nona
and Jerry Wilson, Crystal City,
Missouri
Ron Casey from Nona and Jerry
Wilson, Crystal City, Missouri
Ida Cavitt from Mrs. Poerner Riehl,
Houston, Texas
Barry and Gary Dorman, twin
sons, from Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Dorman, Dunn, North Carolina
Frances Galloway from John and
Wilma Russell, Whigham, Georgia
Pastor James Hamilton from Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Blake, Lexington,
Kentucky
LaVelle Harrell, my precious
mother, from Jeannine Glaze,
Hickory, North Carolina
Ethel Mauldin, my grandmother,
from Jeannine Glaze, Hickory,
North Carolina
Lisa Peyton
from Ms. Kay Riggs-McDole,
Anderson, Indiana.
Tammy Peyton
from Ms. Kay Riggs-McDole,
Anderson, Indiana.
Gene Price Family
from David and Elaine Shewfelt,
Mission, Texas
Orville Rice from Mike Haege,
Charleston, Missouri
Parker Rice from Mike Haege,
Charleston, Missouri
James Mitchell from Callie
Mitchell, Elon College, North
Carolina
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The Development of the Christian Life
Genesis through Psalms
The first five books of the Bible cover 2,500
years of human history. It also presents the
progressive development of the Christian life.
In fact, the development of our Christian
experience is portrayed in every book of the
Bible.
In Genesis the sovereignty of God in creation
and history is recorded. But the most important
thing that Genesis reveals is that man’s
relationship with God was destroyed because
of sin.
The great desire of the Creator is to fellowship
with man. There is only one basis for having
fellowship with God, and that is obedience. In
order to fully comprehend the importance of
obedience, we must read the Bible—-book by
book-as God, the Author, arranged it.
The book of Genesis tells of man’s spiritual
death, followed by physical death. When
Adam and Eve decided to live according to the
tree of knowledge rather than the tree of life,
man not only lost fellowship with God but
received the curse of death.
The book of Exodus opens with God’s chosen
people at the close of 400 years’ slavery. This
slavery was the result of man’s wisdom.
Pharaoh is a type of Satan, and Egypt is a type
of the world. God provided a way to free His
people and restore fellowship with Him. The
blood from an innocent lamb made deliverance
possible and satisfied the justice of God.
Having been strengthened through eating the
lamb, they made their exodus out of Egypt.
Fellowship with God is restored through the
blood of Christ-the sinless Lamb of God-the
Living Word. We receive strength as we eat
“every word that proceedeth out of the moth of
God” (Matthew 4:4).
As we read the book of Leviticus, we
recognize the sinfulness of man and the
holiness of God. The many laws, sacrifices,
and feasts symbolize how the Christian is led
to maintain fellowship with God and to enjoy
the “good, and acceptable, and perfect will of
God” (Romans 12:2).
George F. Squibb, my Grandad,
from Judy Arredondo, Newark,
Texas
In Numbers, a cloud by day and a pillar of fire
by night were to be the guiding principles-thus
confirming the necessity for God’s children to
trust in His wisdom and goodness for daily
supply and direction. Without His guidance,
the Israelites could not enter the Promised
Land. But His mercy protected and preserved
the new generation.
Glendon Squibb, my Dad, from
Judy Arredondo, Newark, Texas
The book of Deuteronomy covers just 30
days’ time and is a deeper revelation of God’s
Hudson (Bud) Sipes from Billie
Sipes, Glady, West Virginia
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Word to prepare the Israelites for their
promised inheritance.
Joshua, covering 25 years of history, is the
story of Israel entering the Promised Land.
The book of Joshua shows us how to become
an overcomer in our Christian life.
Our inner life is to be controlled by Him. The
giants of jealousy, greed, hate, lust and all the
works of the flesh within the old nature can be
defeated and driven out. Then “there
remaineth therefore a rest” to the child of
faith-a peace that “passeth all understanding”
(Philippians 4:7; Hebrews 4:9).
The victories over the enemy were contingent
upon their relationship to God. Therefore, He
told Joshua: “meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all
that is written therein: for then thou shalt make
thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success” (Joshua 1:8).
Judges covers about 400 years of history. In it
we see the consequences of not permitting
God to rule as king. As a result, we see man
doing “that which is right in his own eyes.”
This pitfall to failure is exposed in the book of
Judges.
The events recorded in the book of Ruth
probably took place in the middle of the years
of the book of Judges. It shows God can use
the most miserable failure to bring something
beautiful into the life of those who return to
Him.
I Samuel gives the key to Samuel’s greatnesshis desire to hear God’s voice and to “let none
of his words fall to the ground” (I Samuel
3:19). Under his leadership the twelve tribes
were united as a nation for the first time in
history. But the people soon asked for a king
like all the other nations. God revealed to
Samuel the seriousness of their sin, saying:
“they have not rejected thee, but they have
rejected me, that I should not reign over them”
(8:7).
Then came the fateful transition from the
Israelites’ being led by God to their being led
by Saul. The 40-year reign of Israel’s first king
ended in miserable failure.
II Samuel is the book of David’s 40-year
reign and God’s covenant with him (see
chapter 7).
I Kings records the decline of the nation as
Solomon ruled for 40 years. The divided
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Faith takes out worry. Faith is unreasonable. Faith does not question God.
- Lester L. Roloff
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Prosperity.....from page 1
“He that is faithful in that which is least is
faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in
the least is unjust also in much. If therefore
ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous
mammon (that’s the least), who will commit
to your trust the true riches?”
It doesn’t’ mean that all mammon is
unrighteous. It’s just according to whose
hand it’s in. If my hand is unrighteous, then
my money is unrighteous, but I can change
the complexion of money. If, for instance, a
gambler or a drunkard were to just donate
ten million dollars, I’d change the
complexion of that money in a hurry. Not
that I’m asking him for it; I don’t ask the
liquor crowd for money. I don’t depend on
the world, but I know that, if the money in a
selfish miser’s hand became mine, (although
it might have been unrighteous before I got
it, it would become righteous immediately
after I got it because I would do right by it
and put it to work for God - every penny of it
- and that’s the difference.
Jesus said if you have not been faithful in
unrighteous mammon, or money, or material
things, then “who will commit to your trust
the true riches?” Reckon what that is? THE
TRUE RICHES ARE SPIRITUAL
THINGS! Why, that’s the blessings and the
power of God. If you haven’t learned to be
faithful in money matters, then God said
you’ll never get the best riches. If you’re not
faithful in that which is another man’s, who
will give you that which is your own? Have
you ever come into your own? Have you
ever really gotten what belongs to you? Have
you ever cashed in? Have you ever drawn
the money out of the bank that God’s got put
in your name? Have you ever learned to
write a spiritual check on heaven and signed
the name of Jesus? Did you know that you’ll
never write a check so big that it will not be
honored at the bank of faith - if you’ll sign it
in Jesus name?
When I went off to Baylor University, my
dad said, “Now son, when you get there, in
case you really get in a bad fix and you just
can’t make it and you really need some help,
I’m going to teach you how to write a check.
You’ll write the check out and put the
amount, and then you sign “H.A. Roloff “on
that check, and you also put down under it
“by Lester.” If I’d have signed “Lester
Roloff,” that wouldn’t have gotten anything,
but when I signed my daddy’s name, the
banker looked at it and said, “I’ll honor it.”
you want and all you need at the same time.
Everybody’s seeking: some are seeking
dope; some are seeking sin; some are
seeking worldly things; some are seeking
pleasure. Seeking, Seeking, Seeking! What
are you seeking for? Oh listen, the secret of
the right kind of seeking is: “But seek ye
first the Kingdom of God, and His
righteousness; and all these things shall be
added unto you” Matthew 6:33.
Why don’t you believe it?
Letters to
Box 1177...
That’s the way I write my spiritual checks. I
sign Jesus’ name, by one of His children.
See, I’m a child of God, and I don’t have any
money of my own in the bank, but He does. I
can get it if I get it in His name. Everything I
have is in the name of Jesus. Every day of
life ought to be in the name of Jesus. We
should live and learn, yet some people live
but never learn. We need to learn to live
completely by faith.
Just a thank you for the CD you sent
me. I really enjoyed it so much. It was
good to hear Brother Roloff singing
and it seemed like old days and it really
blessed me.
-E.B., Bell City, MO
If you’ll serve God and live for Jesus Christ,
then you’ll get all you need; He’ll see to that.
Psalm 37:25, “I have been young, and now
am old; yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.” I’m
not supposed to beg, but I can pray, and
there’s a difference between begging and
praying. I believe God will supply our
needs if we put our trust in Him! When
you get to the place where you want only
what you need, then God can give you all
Bro. Roloff used to preach at Highland
Park Baptist Church, when I was a boy
growing up in the 1970s. I’ve never
forgotten his powerful, passionate and
unique preaching. When I am going to
work early in the morning I get to listen
to the Family Altar Program on
WDYN. Thank you for continuing to
broadcast the recordings of Bro. Roloff.
-M.C., Rossville, GA
I listen to my cd sermons every day and
am so blessed by Lester Roloff and the
music. All praise to God!
-M.R.M.