Wounding Waters, Part I: Love of Money 1:3

Wounding Waters, Part I: Love of Money 1:3

September 28, 2013

Welcome to the first teaching in this five-part series. It has to do with the love of money, as part I, and I want to begin with the Scriptures of Luke 16:13:

No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.

The Scriptures say that the love of money is the root of all evil. When we talk about the love of money, we are talking about a preoccupation with money, and the things that money can help us to attain.

The repercussions of this sin are really far-reaching and difficult to calculate, on the surface. You really have to delve into it, in order to see how much your life is impacted by chasing after things of the world that money can buy.

I speak this with an open heart; the Lord has so many graces for us, but as I said before, the spots on our wedding garment have to do with our entanglements in the world; and we don't want to have these anymore, because it won't be long before the Lord comes for His Bride, and we're not ready! We need to be ready! These are teachings to help us prepare to be His Bride, without spot, wrinkle or blemish.

I want to begin with some examples. The simplest example that I can think of involves an unknown person, who is seen driving up to the church in an old, beater car. His Bible is ragged, and his clothing is plain and simple, with wear and tear at the cuffs and around the neckline. The jeans bear some noticeable holes here and there, and nothing about them says 'designer jeans!' This is a plain, simple person, who is coming to worship the Lord on Sunday.

He enters the church and immediately draws a barrage of judgments from people, ranging from "Okay, is he going to want money for gas or utilities?" to 'Obviously, he's not important, so we'll just ignore him and look away."

We move on to socialize with our friends - the stratum that we're a part of, or at least, that's what some people think. We may greet him in the name of the Lord, and do the usual things that we do when we greet people at church, but there are hidden judgments there about the person in question. Are they going to cause trouble? Are they going to ask for money? What's going to be their issue? Are they here to get something from us?

The kneejerk reaction that we have to people who appear poor can be like that, and we need to be very honest with ourselves. I'm talking about me, and I'm talking about you; I'm talking about everyone. We really need to be honest, and if this attitude of the heart is in you at all, then you need to take a look at it. Try not to get too upset with me, for picking at these things, because these are things I've had to overcome, too, and I could "fall" in a heartbeat! The Lord is constantly giving me the grace to be His emissary, to be His "lover of souls."

Some of us have actually sat next to Angels and not known it and had judgments about the way they were dressed or what kind of car they drove. And they weren't even earthly beings!

How does God look upon that man? Well, God may see someone who is a prophet, who spends a lot of time in prayer; who doesn't consider working in this world worthy of his time. Rather, he helps people. He's always there when the drunk staggers home at night; he's there for the little boy who doesn't have a father anymore. He's there for the single mother who has holes in her roof, and water leaking in. He's there for the elderly and the sick. He could be a person who visits shut-ins. This could very well be who this man is!

But he's so "plain wrapper" and teetering on the edge of looking poor, that he elicits a knee-jerk reaction from those of us who are used to the finer things in life and are looking to other people who are well-heeled or well-dressed.

Perhaps the Lord sees him as a prophet sent into the church with a Word for the pastor or a Word for you, and because you shied away from him - or because I shied away from him - I may not get that Word or that healing that he brought to the church.

Now that's the potential. I'm not saying that this applies to everyone obviously, but God looks at him differently.

If he is a Christian, then Christ dwells in him, and it's a great honor to sit next to someone that Christ dwells in. If he's not a Christian, Christ died on the cross for him and the Lord wants him in Heaven with Him for an eternity - in either case! This person has tremendous value beyond what our superficial judgments would automatically react to.

Now, I'm going to be a little stereotypical here, but I promise to ease up as we go on. Let us now say that a well-dressed man, stepping out of a late-model car sporting a large gold ring with diamonds and carrying his brand-new, leather-bound Bible, walks in the door...and heads turn. "Wow, he must be someone important." "Maybe he's a prophet?" It's certainly difficult to say. He might be. He's well-to-do; he's a success in life. He was noticed the moment he pulled into the parking lot, because he had a really nice car.

He sits close to the front and his just being there commands attention. Heads turn, and voices whisper, "Who is that man?"

Now, how does God see that man? First of all, the Lord died on the Cross for him, and if he is a Christian, of course the Lord lives in him. But the Lord may see things that are not apparent to us; hidden things.

He may be a landowner with sub-standard housing. He may be involved in business deals which are a little 'shady;' there may be tenants in his houses who don't have running water. He buys more property, instead of repairing the property that he already has, that he's renting to the poor. That is a real possibility! We don't know!

On the other hand, he could be a family man who works day and night to make a living for his family; he could be very faithful and devoted - he tithes, he gives to missions. Perhaps he's on a sales trip and he's visiting this church, and he's a good, upstanding citizen! And a good Christian! He does what he can to help.

In any case, he is someone that we want to get to know. He is someone that we're attracted to and drawn to, because he is a success.

The Lord warned us about preferential treatment in James 2:

My brothers and sisters, believers in our Lord, Jesus Christ, must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting, wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy, old clothes comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes, and say, "Here, here! Here's a good seat for you, right up in front," but you say to the poor man, "You stand over there, or you can sit on the floor or here by my feet." Have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Those are difficult words! Evil thoughts. Showing judgment because of economic status.

I had a friend once who had been in publishing, and we were talking about this very same issue. And he said, "Well, I don't see anything wrong with that. After all, we should associate with people who are on our own level; in our own stratum."

I was really quite scandalized by that, because I know that there are many wonderful Christians who make wonderful friends, and who are very deep - and economically, they don't measure up. But isn't it about anointing? And relationships with the Lord? Devotion to the Lord and brotherly love? Isn't that our standard? Why are we looking at rings and clothes and cars, and making judgments based on that?

I'm going to move on to another example now, and I want to say this much:

In Proverbs, it says to scorn the poor is a slap in the face of Jesus and casts mud upon the cross, for it is written, "He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their maker."'

Money has very deep roots in our consciousness, and people with money have a certain meaning, and people without money have another meaning. We need to take a very close look at our attitudes and our preferences for people, based upon their economic status.

I'm going to give you another example: We're going to go from very small examples of how it corrupts our Christian walk to some very big ways that it has an effect on the Church.

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