Money can’t buy a righteous man.
Money can’t buy a virtuous woman.
Money can’t buy a personal God (the real One).
Money can’t buy a customized (“constructed or altered according to individual specifications”) Bible.
Money can’t buy peace.
Money can’t buy love.
Money can’t buy a debate.
Money can’t buy truth—or create alternative truth.
Money can’t buy life.
Money can’t buy the “abundant life.”
Jesus said a lot about what money can’t buy. And most people say, by their life, “I don’t buy it.”
“The thief (the devil) comes to kill, steal, and destroy; I came that you may have life, and have it more abundantly.”
“He who saves his life will lose it; he who loses his life for my sake will find it.”
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
“It is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven . . . but with God all things are possible.”
Then, if you do buy that much of Jesus’ words, He adds this for those who follow Him:
“You cannot serve God and mammon (all the world’s stuff that money can buy).”
“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“Do not lay up treasure on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.”
“Do lay up treasure in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal.”
How do you “lay up treasure in heaven”?
—Money can’t buy treasure in heaven if you maintain control of it.
—Money can buy treasure in heaven if you give it away.
—Treasure in heaven doesn’t count if you didn’t sacrifice to give it away.
—Bottom line test, in two parts:
. Part One—Jesus, I love you from the bottom of my heart.
. Part Two—Jesus, I love you from the bottom of my wallet.
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