May 4, 2015
A Word to the Rich…
Categories: Biblical
Next, a word for the rich: weep and wail over the hardships coming upon you! Your riches have rotted, and your clothes have become moth-eaten; your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat up your flesh like fire! This is the acharit-hayamim (the last days), and you have been storing up wealth!
— James 5:1-3 (CJB)
For you keep saying, ‘I am rich, I have gotten rich, I don’t need a thing!’ You don’t know that you are the one who is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked! My advice to you is to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be dressed and not have to be ashamed of your nakedness; and eyesalve to rub on your eyes, so that you may see.
— Revelation 3:17, 18 (CJB)
And when Jesus saw that he became very sorrowful, He said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!”
— Luke 18:24 (NKJV)
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Riches are a snare in these last days… do not be ensnared thereby. Store your treasures in heaven, “where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal” (Matthew 6:20, NKJV).
For what will it profit a man
if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul?
— Mark 8:36 (NKJV)
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