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1 | Matthew 19:24 is a puzzle for me ? | Matt 19:24 | Ken John | 108728 | ||
Matt 19:24 puzzles me as it would seem that the rich cannot enter "the Kingdom of God" so what must they do ? Jesus doesn't seem to condemn being wealth as long as one believes in Christ, not so ? | ||||||
2 | Matthew 19:24 is a puzzle for me ? | Matt 19:24 | Makarios | 108729 | ||
Greetings Ken John! The "puzzle" of Matthew 19:24 lies in this: do you use your wealth as a steward? Or does your wealth have you? "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it" (Matthew 16:24-25, KJV) Have you rooted from your heart all sense of 'possessing' things, even though you may be entrusted with certain things? Luke 12:34 "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." We must be free from all sense of 'possessing.' Abraham was old when Isaac was born, old enough to have been his grandfather, and the child became at once the delight and idol of his heart. The baby represented everything sacred to his father's heart: the promises of God, the covenants, the hopes of the years and the long messianic dream. As he grew older, the heart of the old man was knit closer and closer with the life of his son, till at last the relationship bordered upon the perilous. "Take now thy son," said God to Abraham, "thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering.." (Genesis 22:2, KJV). The sacred text spares us a close-up of the agony that night on the slopes near Beersheba when the aged man had it out with his God.. Possibly not again until One greater than Abraham wrestled in the Garden of Gethsemane did such mortal pain visit a human soul. How could he reconcile this act with the promise, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called"? This was Abraham's trial by fire, but he did not fail. Long before dawn Abraham had made up his mind: He would offer his son as God had directed him to do, and then he would trust God to raise him from the dead (Hebrews 11:19). This was the solution that Abraham's aching heart found sometime in the middle of the night, to carry out God's plan. And God let the suffering old man go through with it, right up to the point where He knew that there would be no return, and then forbade him to lay a hand on the boy. "Now I know that thou fearest God, seeing that thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me." Abraham had everything, but yet he 'possessed' nothing. Blessings to you, Makarios |
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3 | Matthew 19:24 is a puzzle for me ? | Matt 19:24 | flinkywood | 108733 | ||
Makarios, this is an excellent answer. Colin. |
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