Does Wealth Disqualify You From Heaven?
“It’s easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for someone who is rich to enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:24
(This is part II of my blog last week. If you’ve not read it, you may want to, for it sets up this discussion.)
Here’s the first important question to ask about this teaching: Is Jesus disqualifying “the rich” from heaven, or are many, perhaps even most rich people, disqualifying themselves? Let me rephrase that question: Is the possession of wealth the disqualifying factor, or is there something about wealth or money that keeps the rich from God?
I believe it’s the later.
As I pointed out last week, there are many wealthy individuals in the Bible, Old Testament and New, who had great wealth and who also loved God and were loved, by God. So, clearly the two are not mutually exclusive.
I believe Jesus’ warnings on wealth can be boiled down to these three dangerous traps for the wealthy.
(This is part II of my blog last week. If you’ve not read it, you may want to, for it sets up this discussion.)
Here’s the first important question to ask about this teaching: Is Jesus disqualifying “the rich” from heaven, or are many, perhaps even most rich people, disqualifying themselves? Let me rephrase that question: Is the possession of wealth the disqualifying factor, or is there something about wealth or money that keeps the rich from God?
I believe it’s the later.
As I pointed out last week, there are many wealthy individuals in the Bible, Old Testament and New, who had great wealth and who also loved God and were loved, by God. So, clearly the two are not mutually exclusive.
I believe Jesus’ warnings on wealth can be boiled down to these three dangerous traps for the wealthy.
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