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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
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Trusting in the world and the things of the world is exactly what Satan, who is the ruler of this present world {Jn.14:30} and the god of the world system, {2Cor.4:4} desperately wants us to do. That is because it will always hide the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God. And in the end, those riches do not profit!

King Solomon, who was the son and the successor of King David, a man after God’s own heart, {Acts 13:22} had asked for and had been granted the wisdom to govern God’s people. {2Chr.1:11} The Lord went on to say that because of that godly desire He would also give Solomon riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings who were before him had possessed, nor any of the kings who would come after him. [2Chr.1:12} The problem, which is well documented in the Scriptures, was that all of the riches he had blinded him to the wisdom he had been given!

He wrote in his Book of Ecclesiastes of a heartfelt cry of the failure of earthly things to make him happy or to bring pleasure and true satisfaction. He describes all of the things he owned and possessed, forgetting that his father David taught that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof {Ps.24:1} and none of us actually own anything! God entrusts us with what He owns! Solomon cried out in anguish, “Then I said to myself, as is the fate of the fool, it will also befall me. Why then have I been extremely wise? So I said to myself, this too is vanity.” {Ecc.2:15} He had forgotten what the wisdom was for!

The words of Jesus ring in my ears as I hear Him say to me and to all who will hear, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” {Mat.5:6} No amount of money can buy that! It is indeed the free gift of God, more precious than silver and gold!

Many years ago Alice and I were having lunch in Sarasota, Florida with a small group of brothers all of whom were very successful financial counselors. During the course of that fellowship one of the fellows said, in a derogatory sense, that ‘money talks’. I immediately said that’s true. As a matter of fact, Jesus said the same thing! That brought a moment of quiet around the table! Jesus absolutely said that money talks—He just said that it lies. We have been warned to beware of the deceitfulness of riches, a tactic of the Devil, the father of lies!

“And the one on whom seed was sown among the thorns, this is the man who hears the word, and the worry of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.”
(Matthew 13:22)

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