Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

numerous passages is appollumi , and means, “to fully destroy, die or perish.” (See Matthew 10:28.) In 1 Corinthians 3:17, it is the word phtheiro, which means, “to wither away, to shrivel or to spoil over a process of time.” 1 Hearing this passage preached the way it was while growing up, we could see God trying to kill the person who was smoking or defiled their temple (their body) in any way. Actually, the Greek interpretation can mean that God will allow the person to begin to wither away and be spoiled over a process of time— without preventing it . Let me say it this way. If a believer persists in any action that brings moral or physical corruption that impacts his or her physical body, God will not intervene to stop the destruction (for example, a disease) from entering the body as a result of that person’s actions. A good example is someone who is morally careless and through fornication or adultery receives a sexually transmitted disease. The person cannot cry out, “God, why didn’t You prevent this from happening to me?” or “Why didn’t You stop this?”, because the person walked into a situation with some knowledge that there are repercussions to certain lifestyles. If a believer persists and does not get victory over a habit such as smoking, the body will eventually succumb to the effects and the person’s life can be taken prematurely through the diseases (cancer, heart trouble, or stroke) caused by putting a substance within the temple that can harm. Smokers will often point out, and it is true, that others abuse their body through overeating or by eating foods that will clog the arteries, cause unhealthy weight gain, and