It Will Take A Miracle!
Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" And the disciples were astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." And they were greatly astonished, saying among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." Mark 10:23-27
Jesus said it was hard for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God but He never said it was impossible. As a matter of fact He said concerning salvation "With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible." Yes it takes a God given miracle to be saved, to be filled with the Spirit, to be healed and live in divine health and divine prosperity. Jesus never taught that it was bad to be rich? When Jesus healed sick people they became rich because now they could support themselves? Yet God’s word is true:
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 1Timothy 6:10
For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day. 2 Timothy 1:12
It's a very weak Salvation when we cannot trust God to keep what we have committed to Him until that day including Salvation and have to worry that money will corrupt us and we will lose our salvation! But having a lot of money is not evil as a matter of fact it's a blessing. You can do a lot of things with money. I have been poor and I have been rich and it's better being rich. It is also a fact of scriptures from the lives of Abraham and Job and David that if God has a person heart He loves to bless him or her with riches:
"Listen to Me, you who follow after righteousness, You who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were hewn, And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father, And to Sarah who bore you; For I called him alone, And blessed him and increased him." For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Isaiah 51:1-3
Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord-that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful. James 5:11
The end of Job was better than his beginning. And this is what God wants for all His children. But there are those who believe that poverty and suffering are the will of God for His children and they love to spiritualize all the promises as only spiritual blessings and not earthly or material blessings. Some point out that when Jesus promised in Mark 10:29-30 "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time-houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions-and in the age to come, eternal life’ it related to spiritual houses and brothers and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands. Jesus is our real treasure and great material possessions will replace him. Also Jesus taught we are not to store up treasures on earth but are to suffer with other Christians who are at this very moment rotting in prisons around the world, who are being tortured, who are being held captive and put in chains, who are having family members murdered all because they are Christians.
So is poverty or prosperity the will of God for His people? Who is right and who is wrong? Well everything we accept from come comes by faith and God’s word tells us:
"Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith. Habbakuk 2:4
Then He touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be to you." Matthew 9:29
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17
Whatever the Holy Spirit has taught and given us and we accepted by faith is God’s will for us? If we believe it is suffering and poverty? Then so bit it. If we believe it is blessings and prosperity? Then so bit it. What matters is not whether we are poor or rich but whether Jesus Christ is glorified in and through it! Mind you it’s easier sometimes to die for Christ than to live for Him? And it’s very easy to give up the word of God when the devil brings persecution upon us because of the word? Some people can believe God for something and other people can believe God for nothing! I had a friend who didn’t believe that God could give him a job so he made one thousand applications until he found one. And I have another friend who just sent out his angel to find him a job and it came to him. Yet God’s word is unchanging:
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days. By faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she had received the spies with peace. And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. And others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented- of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. Hebrews 11:30-38
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