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On the matter of Jesus and money, there are three types of people in the world.

1. The first group of people have no idea what Jesus said about money, and they don’t care to know.

2. People who care so much that they make the words of Jesus about money the standard of their financial lives.

3. Then there are the people who have the words of Jesus about money in their minds, but wish they didn’t.

Here is an example of the third type of person. I was at a seminar about creating a millionaire mindset. After a break, I was returning to my seat when I saw one of the students talking with the speaker. As I got closer, I heard the student ask: “How can you say it is good to be rich? Jesus said that a rich man can’t get into Heaven.”

My candidate for the Bible verse most likely to convince people that they have to choose between riches and salvation is the comment by Jesus about a rich man and the Kingdom of Heaven. Of all of the words of Jesus about money, this is the one that is most misinterpreted.

The story of the rich man occurs three times in the Bible. In each case, Jesus talked about a rich man and the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven. In fact, Jesus did not say that a rich man can’t get into Heaven. This means that the upset student at the seminar had misquoted the story. And by confusing the Kingdom of Heaven with Heaven, he had missed the real point of the story.

The Kingdom of Heaven concerns the economic reality of people alive on planet Earth. The Kingdom of Heaven is not the same as Heaven.

The only liberating remedy for people who know-or think they know what Jesus said about money-is to put the words of Jesus into the context of the story, and to put the story in the context of the economic society in which Jesus lived.

The alternative is to live your life feeling guilty about wanting money and guilty about having it. This is what happened to the man at the seminar. He misunderstood the point of the story. As a result, he was stuck in the Eye of the Needle about money, without realizing that he had completely missed the point of the story.

When Jesus told the story, he was condemning an unjust economic system because it created poverty. He didn’t say that the rich cannot get into Heaven and he didn’t say that the only way to get into Heaven is to be poor.

Article Source: http://www.click2guide.net

What if most of what you were taught about Jesus and money is not biblical? Don’t let misinterpreted words of Jesus block you from enjoying an abundant life.
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