Lisbon, Portugal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Is Jesus against wealth? I don't think so. He simply warns us to use wealth wisely. He simply wants to say that material wealth is not at all the most important part of man's life but rather God. In this statement, He is like reminding us that human beings really value wealth so much that we forget about the more and most significant things other than wealth.
There are many questions coming up about Jesus' opinion regarding wealth. I have compiled a list of Biblical references that cites Jesus opinion of wealth. I hope this will guide you as you live a life of abundance and wealth.
A. Matthew 6:19-21
"Do not store up treasure for yourself here on earth where moth and rust destroy it, and where thieves can steal it." - Matthew 6:19
"Store up treasure for yourself with God, where no moth or rust can destroy nor thief come and steal it." - Matthew 6:20
"For where your treasure is, there also your heart will be." - Matthew 6,21
B. Matthew 6:24-34
24 No one can serve two masters; for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will be loyal to the first and look down on the second. You cannot at the same time serve God and money.
25 This is why I tell you not to be worried about food and drink for yourself, or about clothes for your body. Is not life more important than food and is not the body more important than clothes?
26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow, they do not harvest and do not store food in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than birds?
27 Can any of you add a day to your life by worrying about it?
28 Why are you so worried about your clothes? Look at the flowers in the fields how they grow. They do not toil or spin.
29 But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his wealth was clothed like one of these.
30 If God so clothes the grass in the field which blooms today and is to be burned tomorrow in an oven, how much more will he clothe you? What little faith you have!
31 Do not worry and say: What are we going to eat? What are we going to drink? Or: what shall we wear?
32 The pagans busy themselves with such things; but your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
33 Set your heart first on the kingdom and justice of God and all these things will also be given to you.
34 Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
D. - Matthew 19:21
"Jesus answered, "If you wish to be perfect, go and sell all that you possess and give the money to the poor and you will become the owner of a treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me.""
- Matthew 19,21
E. - Matthew 25,27
"Then you should have deposited my money in the bank, and you would have given it back to me with interest on my return."
F. - Mark 6,8
"And he ordered them to take nothing for the journey except a staff; no food, no bag, no money in their belts."
G.
"Then Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him and he said, "For you, one thing is lacking. Go, sell what you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come and follow me.""
- Mark 10,21
H. Luke 16:9-13
9 And so I tell you: use filthy money to make friends for yourselves, so that when it fails, these people may welcome you into the eternal homes.
10 Whoever can be trusted in little things can also be trusted in great ones; whoever is dishonest in slight matters will also be dishonest in greater ones.
11 So if you have not been trustworthy in handling filthy money, who could entrust you with true wealth?
12 And if you have not been trustworthy with things which are not really yours, who will give you the wealth which is your own?
13 No servant can serve two masters. Either he does not like the one and is fond of the other, or he regards one highly and the other with contempt. You cannot give yourself both to God and to Money."
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