Comments on God & Mammon: A Camel in the Eye of a Needle

Hi Anonymous, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on ...

2009-03-22T11:46:00.000-07:00

Hi Anonymous, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the wealth dilemma... enjoyed reading about your decision and comments.

I'm facing a seeming dillema about wealth. I've go...

2009-03-18T15:18:00.000-07:00

I'm facing a seeming dillema about wealth. I've got an opporunity to control an inhertiance of seven figures. That's pretty much wealth by anyone standards. Not being in control of it all myself is like being a servant instead of a master. I can see that its a Biblical principle that heirs are not to remain as mere servants all thier life ( Gal 4 ) and that if a man can be made free, he should get free. ( 1 Cor 7:21 ). Its definately a good and natural thing to enjoy being on top instead being a servant instead of a lord. Yet, the Bible also speaks of discipleship with radical measures of faith, obedience and sacrifice. The rich young ruler is tied up with man's ways and things. But God has made it clear that you cannot serve two masters. It is also written than no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ( 2 Tim 2:4 ). So the decision for me to not take control over an inheritance was the decision not to get entangled in the everdemanding requirements of wealth issues, like tax, investments, laws, and the like. It sounds so promising to labour for God's redemptive purposes in the world of poverty and suffering ( not to mention your own christian friends ) but the true way is the Lord's way of the cross - that His Spirit will affect the world. As Paul's example: I count all but dung that I may know Him and the power of his resurrection. If we dont know Him intimately, how can we do anything for God? And the cost of knowing Him like a true disciple is worth everything. God is God of heaven and earth, he doesn't need our pitiful offerings of gold and silver for his purposes. He has alwyas used human instruments. The one great need of the church always has been and always will be the great Holy Ghost.
! amen.

Any way you interpret this passage, the message Ch...

2007-11-22T23:50:00.000-08:00

Any way you interpret this passage, the message Christ challenges every man and woman up to this day with is this: IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO LEAVE EVERYTHING BEHIND TO FOLLOW ME...YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. Christ touched on this same theme when he said he did not COME INTO THE WORLD TO BRING PEACE, BUT TO SEPERATE MOTHER FROM DAUGHTER, AND TURN SON AGAINST FATHER, AND HUSBAND AGAINST WIFE ETC. ETC.
The ultimate message is clear,..AND IT IS VERY HARD TEACHING for some...who deep down have their treasures stored up here on this earth in everything from their grandchild to their profession to their savings account and their sex life...CHRIST REPEATEDLY EMPHASIZED THE SAME THEME: HE WHO FINDS HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT, AND HE WHO LOSES HIS LIFE...WILL FIND IT...meaning...when you've lost or given up EVERYTHING you love in your heart about this wicked, temporary, passing world...YOU ARE TRULY ON THE RIGHT PATH. Until each of us is prepared to sacrafice absolutely ALL for our Christianity...we have much to work on.

Yes, thanks for the correction. They are not the s...

2007-10-31T12:53:00.000-07:00

Yes, thanks for the correction. They are not the same, just very similar.

The Greek words for "camel" and "rope" differ by o...

2007-10-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

The Greek words for "camel" and "rope" differ by one letter: Kamelon vs Kamilon (you can change the font to "symbol" to see what those look like in Greek.) All of the oldest manuscripts have "camel".