I’ve never seen anyone who had blessings and money flow through him like Willard Cantelon did.  Over the years, he was so busy about God’s work, I remember, that suddenly you see him driving this Mercedes: “Willard, where did you get that Mercedes?”  “Oh, somebody gave it to me.”  The next time you see him, “Willard, where is your Mercedes?”  “Oh, I gave it to somebody.”  A huge Steinway piano (remember, his son was a pianist) given to him, and next time you see him, “Where is that Steinway?”  “Oh, we gave it to somebody.”  It’s tragic what has become of it, but TBN is the biggest of all the Christian studios—and also the most carnal; it’s tragic, the false doctrine being promoted on it—but do you know who founded that?  Do you know who bought that station?  Willard Cantelon.  He gave it to Paul Crouch.  It’s too bad that it didn’t get used more for the glory of God, but there were good things.  I could go on and on.

We’re conduits, aren’t we?  As it pertains to the body’s needs being met all of us are conduits of whatever our gifts might be, whether it’s to bring comfort and counsel, to give financially, moving in the gifts of healing, or whatever, at different moments, we are conduits of God in our lives.  He blesses us to bless others; He gifts us to edify others and to make the body strong.  This is why, as we read through this sixth chapter, that he said, “Here is the thing that I want you to know:  those promoting that thought process, withdraw yourself from them.  “Godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.  And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.  But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.”  Do you know what the word perdition is in the Greek?  It means “total loss of well‑being.”  Do you want to be rich?  This is what it will bring you if you want to be rich, if you will to be rich, if you’re working to be rich, if you love money.

The Bible is true:  do you believe it all?  “He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver” (Ecclesiastes 5:10).  Is that Bible?  “One of these times I’ll have enough, and it’ll be sufficient.”  No, it won’t; you’re lying to yourself.  When we, rather than God, begin to set the standard of what’s enough, we’ll end up in error.  “So,” he says, “this is the consequence.”  You can’t take that part out of Chapter 6, throw that away, and accept the other part.  If you will to be rich, if you love money, that love of money is the root of all of these evils that you will bring on yourself just because you love it.  What a tragic condition, “for the love of money is the root of all these evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”  “Ah, but it won’t happen to us.  Yeah, that’s for other people.”