*** MORSEL EXTRAS***
Re: Materialism
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our
machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
--A.W.Tozer
Jesus said, "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon" (Mt 6:24). He did not
say, "You cannot serve God and the Devil"...which would be almost
pointless....With every movement of material progressiveness, His word
becomes still more searching, more arresting....The worship of
Mammon...is the deification of human will...a will that insists upon the
subservience of others...and worships a deity whose expression of
godhead is mastery and whose sceptre of power is the possession of
wealth. --G.Campbell Morgan
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "Assuredly, I say to you that it is
hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. "And again I say
to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than
for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." (Mat 19:24)
And He said to them, "Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one's
life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses."
(Luke 12:15)
"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy and where thieves break in and steal; "but lay up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys
and where thieves do not break in and steal. "For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also. (Mat6:19-21)
(VW)
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