In Luke 8 Jesus gives us the parable of the sower and the seeds...with different seeds growing in different soil and He compares them to different life situations.
Interestingly one of them is riches and that they can choke out the gospel in ones life...
I find it interesting that so many are drawn to the 'Prosperity Gospels', the doctrines that state 'God wants us rich' - that unless your living well, healthy and driving that nice new... whatever...you aren't growing in your faith...that one is equated with the other....that they run parallel to each other...
That's not what I read in the scriptures... Everyone that touts this also uses Hebrews 11 - the Faith chapter, and yet if they'd read to the end, they would find, people full of faith, NOT prospering in a worldly way at all! infact their homes are taken away, they are destitute, living in caves, even sawn in half!!!! and Yet the Words God speaks of them is this, "The world was not worthy of them." That's a pretty strong commendation and affirmation of their faith by God...
Why are so many proclaiming this kind of Gospel, when Jesus clearly stated that it is this kind of thing that will draw us away and literally choke out the Gospel?
Jesus said of the scribes and pharisees of His day, these religious leaders that assumed their wealth, position and accumulation of 'things' were connected to their pious lifestyle, "THEY HAVE THEIR REWARD" -
Sad words from an eternal perspective!
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