Everything And Nothing

So many fell because of the failure of Jim and Tammy Bakker

So many were turned off because of some of the oddities of Oral Robertson demands.

Many asked how could Jimmy Swaggart have fallen in the 1980’s?

No pastor or messenger is your god.

No church is your salvation.

Do not let any person be put in the spot that belongs to God.

This Jew who kept all the laws and rules so he thought had put material things in the spot that God belonged. He asked about salvation and eternal life and Jesus exposed the one thing that he was not willing to lay down for Jesus and that was the very thing Jesus demanded of him and he was not able to do it.

“Sell all that you have and give to the poor, and follow me.”

Jesus saw in this man that money was his god and ask him to lay it down.

You will not have to sell all your riches unless your riches have been placed where God should be.

There are a lot of rich people in the Bible and today that God will not ask to sell all because their possessions don’t posses them.

You do not lose your treasure when you give to others- you are laying up treasures in heaven. Amen! Good stuff! Get it! Poet and don’t know it.

No one can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” Matthew 6:24

We need money, we can have money, but it cannot be our God. You can replace the word money with anything at all that would be higher than God and He will bring your god down and put it in prospective.

Very quickly-

The perils of riches (anything placed higher than God)

Riches encourage a false independence

Riches shackle people to this earth

Riches tend to make people selfish

Those who are humble on earth will be great in heaven. Those who were great on earth will be humbles in heaven.

If you really want your investment to last- invest your treasures in heavenly things that will last forever.

Close,

Is there something or someone that you put before your God?

Christianity is not something that can be chosen from a buffet of religious options.

We have to obey we have to search or hearts to be sure that nothing gets placed where the Lord is to be.

There is nothing wrong with stuff, but there is if the stuff has you.

This ruler had everything money could buy but had nothing of value when he chose to walk away from Jesus.

Christianity is realizing that we are guilty of sin.

It is a relationship forged in repentance of those sins.

It is sacrificially living your life by loving service and obedience to the one whose mercy and grace set us free.

Would you take a minute and allow the Lord to search your heart and would you be willing to lay down anything that hinders your relationship with the Lord.

Amen

Prayer.