Title: Make Friends with Unrighteous Riches
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All wealth in this world is the wealth of unrighteousness. Because all wealth is an object of service.
“No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other, for ye cannot serve both God and mammon” (Matthew 6:24). Likewise, the rich in the world with abundant wealth will love the world more than God.
The basis of all wealth is money. Therefore, the truth exhorts, “The love of money is the root of all evil, and those who long for it have been deceived, and have erred from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6:10).
He also exhorts each of us who have met the last days, “Know this that the times of suffering will come in the last days, when people will love themselves, love money, be proud, proud, slander, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unresolved, accusers, unrestrained, ferocious, not fond of what is good, treacherous, sells, hasty, sleeps, loves pleasure more than the love of God, has a form of godliness, but denies the power of godliness. d” (2 Timothy 3:1-5).
It is as it is written, “You were built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone” (Ephesians 2:20).
Therefore, at the end of all these days, he himself said to us as his sons, “I tell you, make friends by means of unrighteousness, and when they perish, they will receive you into an eternal dwelling. And he who is unrighteous in a very little is also unrighteous in much. If you are not faithful in unrighteous riches, who will trust you with the truth? If you are not loyal to others, who will give you what is yours? You cannot serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and riches” (Luke 16:9-13).
This world is the inheritance of the perishing servant, and the other world is the inheritance of the son who will last forever. This world is the inheritance of the sons of darkness, and the other world is the inheritance of the sons of light. Therefore, the children of God who do not belong to the world do not receive the love of the world. As it is written, “You have sympathy for the prisoners, and you have been glad to have your inheritance taken away, knowing that you have a better and lasting inheritance” (Hebrews 10:34). It is also someone else's. Therefore, the Lord said, “If you are not loyal to others, who will give you yours?”
This is because all the wealth and glory in this world belongs to the one who has conquered the power of death, the devil, who has been given to Satan, the ruler of the world. As it is written, “The devil took Jesus up again, and in an instant he showed all the kingdoms of the world, saying, I will give you all these powers and their glory, and they have been handed over to me, and I am giving them to whomever I want” (Luke 4:5-6). is. Therefore, to the children of God who belong to Christ, everything in this world is “someone else's.”
Therefore, the truth exhorts God's children, who are not of the world, who are strangers, and who are heading for a better homeland, "Do not love money, but be content with what you have," he himself said. will not depart” (Hebrews 13:5).
Not everyone will receive this truth, but only the people who bear the fruits of the kingdom who will enter the eternal dwelling place. “Make friends with the riches of unrighteousness, and when they perish, they will receive you into an eternal dwelling place.” Amen, thank you Lord.
little brother kim yoon-goo