May 24, 2008 Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?

Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?

There is no lack in the number of ads enticing wealth and splendor. You can have it all. But at what cost? I see ads promising the rainbow, interviews with people sitting on their yachts in the Caribbean, telling their stories of how easy it is to have all 'this'. 'Sit back and let the money roll in!' Who takes the time to see if the set ups are a lie, those being interviewed are actors, if the promises are false advertising? The frenzy of wanting more and more and more is crazy. When do we see what it has done to us? Where is the end to this madness?

Here's another lie, (quote):
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty. James Lowell

And Ralph Waldo Emerson has it right:
Money often costs too much.

Peter and John as they entered the temple gate a man crippled from birth asked for money as he laid on a mat at the gate called Beautiful. Peter fixed his eyes on him and said 'Look at us', "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk."

They gave everything they had. Relying completely on the hand of God to supply their daily bread. They laid it all down to be able to lift each other up. They lived by faith, not by money.

Acts 2:44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, 45 and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need.(Unfathomable to us in this wealthy nation!!) 46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart (oh, that we could comprehend this!), 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

Man cannot serve God and mammon or money. And with the above scripture the misinterpretation in past history that 'common' meant 'commune or sect'. It is possible to live autonomous lives and walk in this untamed faith with God without going from bondage to money to bondage to man. If I serve God, He wants me to depend on Him for all my needs, If I serve money and strive for riches and to make more of 'it' I depend on 'it' to supply all my needs.

There is one choice here.

What is your final answer? This is between you and God.

Financial Freedom; here's the bondage.

Mark 8:36 "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? 37 "For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Will you lose your life for Him?

Video & Song
'Walk By Faith' Jeremy Camp
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r9WXUlERHKc&feature=related