Words of wisdom

Wisdom



You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve God while your heart and life are devoted to monetary or material security the lust thereof, it destroye you and your family and close friends.  According to Jesus, if you are serving money as your master, then you “despise” God.

Our nation is plagued with it, not that money is bad, nor are guns, or cars which kill 50,000 per year, and no one blinks, it is the misuse of anything  that leads to murder, theft,taxes. Anything that takes what does not belong to another.

And the destruction of our relationship with God is the end result, as mercy and love are destroyed or overlooked to achieve self advantage.

• Phil 3:7-8 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish in order that I may gain Christ. (NAS)

• Phil 3:18-19 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, {that they are} enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is {their} appetite, and {whose} glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. (NAS)

• I Jn 2:15-17 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. And the world is passing away, and {also} its lusts; but the one who does the will of God abides forever. (NAS)

• James 4:2-5 You lust and do not have; {so} you commit murder. And you are envious and cannot obtain; {so} you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend {it} on your pleasures. You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: "He jealously desires the spirit which He has made to dwell in us"? (NAS)