What the Bible says about Wealth, Accumulating
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Amos 3:15 Some of these people owned two or more houses, at least one for the summer and one for the winter. These homes must have been luxurious! Certainly, they were not completely made of ivory, but the woodwork must have been inlaid with ivory, a symbol of costly items affordable only by the wealthy. John W. Ritenbaugh The World, the Church, and Laodiceanism Related Topics: Display of Wealth | Luxury | Luxury and Ease | Material Things, Attitude Toward | Materialism | Setting Heart upon Material Possessions | Wealth | Wealth, Accumulating

Amos 5:10-11 Despite their pilgrimages and their love of religion (Amos 4:4-5), the Israelites' real focus was getting for themselves. Since it was more difficult to accumulate wealth and power lawfully, they built their empires on the backs of the weak and poor and persecuted those who insisted on doing business legally. God promises He will avenge them. John W. Ritenbaugh Prepare to Meet Your God! (The Book of Amos) (Part One) Related Topics: Amassing Wealth | Amos, Prophecies of | Indifference to Poor | Israel's Transgressions | Poor, Oppression of | Wealth, Accumulating | Wealth, Pursuing

Luke 12:21 This phrase "not rich toward God" summarizes human folly and the error of thinking one does not need God. A person who "is not rich toward God" lives to accumulate and enjoy wealth only to die with nothing permanent or eternal to show for his efforts. Godly living—and all that God esteems to be true riches—is eternal. To think of life only in terms of physical things is both foolish and fatal because life is not comprised and enhanced even by abundant material possessions but by spiritual and eternal things (James 2:5). If we place God first rather than the accumulation of wealth, then we will use whatever He allows us to have, no matter how little or how much, to glorify Him (I Corinthians 10:31). Martin G. Collins Parable of the Rich Fool Related Topics: Accumulation of Wealth | Godly Living | Impermanence of Physical Things | Parable of the Rich Fool | Physical and Spiritual Perspectives | Rich toward God | Wealth, Accumulating

 

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