I've heard it said so many times that Jesus talked about money more than any other subject. Why did He talk about money so much? Most people assume that money is an important issue. This is a simplistic answer that does not even begin to placate my inquisitional palate.
I don't think Jesus was really interested in money for money's sake. He was interested in it because, just like today, people are engrossed in it as a an end instead of a means to an end. What I mean is that people look at money not as a flowing resource, but as an answer to life's problems. This is the thinking Christ was addressing in His ministry. It was not so 2000 years later someone could talk about the prosperity gospel.
Let's get a couple of things straight. Even though Jesus referred to money several times, most of His miracles concerned physical healing. After many of these healing miracles He would address their spiritual state by saying things like "your sins are forgiven" and "go and sin no more."
Very rarely do you see the point of Jesus miracle directly impose on the territory of finance. In fact, only one time does Jesus do a financial miracle. If finances are so important to God, then why only one financial miracle?
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interesting thought. I do think that the modern church has given too much into the prosperity doctrine and too little into people. but as dad says...if i wait for the church to do it, i die with the church. way to start change brandon.
I may also add this for your consideration about why Jesus speaks about money: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Luke 12.34 If He wants our hearts, and our hearts are holding on to money, it makes sense that Christ speaks about wealth "for it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." (Luke 18.25)
The quickest and simplest answer I can give you Brandon is that God knows what kind of hold money has on us. He knows that alot of times, money and how we get it and what we do with it can get in the way of our walk with him. Seeking a bill face instead of His face.
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