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JAMES
CHAPTER 1
9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass[c] he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also, will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
THE RICH AND THE POOR
Christianity is the only faith, that is counter cultural. You can be as poor as a church mouse so to speak and yet be rich as a billionaire in spiritual things, see Ephesians 1.
One of the things, it does, is that it puts money in its proper place. It puts riches in it's proper place, we need money to live, but we don't need riches.
It is often said, that you cant take your money with you, but why would you, all the money in the world, can't buy you into heaven, no amount of money, could buy you the things and the glory that are in heaven.
No amount of money can win you salvation.
When it talks about humiliation here, it talks about if you have money, you have to lay it down at the feet of Jesus. The rich young ruler and others in the gospels refused to lay it down and it cost them, their souls.
It is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, but when he is humiliated and lets everything go for the sake of the gospel, he is exalted, he is blessed. Because he will now have what money cannot buy.
Amen
God bless you
Keith
CHAPTER 1
9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass[c] he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also, will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
THE RICH AND THE POOR
Christianity is the only faith, that is counter cultural. You can be as poor as a church mouse so to speak and yet be rich as a billionaire in spiritual things, see Ephesians 1.
One of the things, it does, is that it puts money in its proper place. It puts riches in it's proper place, we need money to live, but we don't need riches.
It is often said, that you cant take your money with you, but why would you, all the money in the world, can't buy you into heaven, no amount of money, could buy you the things and the glory that are in heaven.
No amount of money can win you salvation.
When it talks about humiliation here, it talks about if you have money, you have to lay it down at the feet of Jesus. The rich young ruler and others in the gospels refused to lay it down and it cost them, their souls.
It is difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, but when he is humiliated and lets everything go for the sake of the gospel, he is exalted, he is blessed. Because he will now have what money cannot buy.
Amen
God bless you
Keith