1. “Time is money” is a worldly philosophy that can mostly be traced to the love of money. Ungodly men agree with it – but godly men should disagree with it. Rather, time is a gift from God to man, to enable him trap and dispense the divine life, and while trading with this understanding, our Lord Jesus seized every opportunity to amass life, until He was empowered to deny all temptations from the devil (Col. 2:8, Matt. 4:8-10, 2Cor. 6:14-16).
2. That a believer has become a billionaire is not a feat or a testimony in the sight of the fallen or faithful angels. But that he would be able to selflessly, purposely, and faithfully use it to secure a good foundation or live with everlasting life in the sight of the Father is a feat before them all (1Tim. 6:17-19, 1Tim. 3:16)
3. No believer can be free from the love of money or of what money can do, if he isn’t on course (and committed) to becoming a professional in seeking things that are in the interest of others; especially things that would foster God’s plan to save their soul. Only then would money become a servant and cease to be a master that gratifies our carnal nature (1Cor. 13:5b, Philp. 2:3-4, 20-21, Matt. 6 :24).
4. Most children are raised with a culture of hustling; they grow up hearing complaints on the need for more money and not more of God, they hear of murmurings of the poor governance of their day – but learn nothing about the government of the Kingdom. They are raised to hope in the comfort or glory that education would ultimately bring their way, while remaining spiritually uneducated. But that after order is finally changing with the coming of the everlasting gospel (Psa. 18:35, 43;144:14, Lk. 21:34).
5. One motive behind the wisdom driving the monetary system has been to create a competition to the faith; so that men can have an alternative fear-driven currency for living – with a limited need to transact with heaven through the faith of God (2Thes. 3:2). God arrested this abnormally by offering men His faith; so new men can be raised whose hope is to become everlasting men or heavenly citizens of the world to come (Acts. 26:18e, 2Pet. 3:12-13).
6. A believer who is naturally or always more excited when giving than receiving, is more blessed or selfless than a believer who isn’t. His attachment to things that can perish with the use, and his previous love of material things has lost its grip on his soul (Acts 20:35, 1Cor. 6:12, 1 Tim. 6:10a).
7. The love of money can be traced to the love of a civilized life (sin) that became virile after the fall of man (Rom. 5:12); a life that continues to compete with the true civilization (for the soul) called the faith and love in Christ Jesus (1Tim. 1:14). Those who get successfully wooed by it always end up building all sorts without, when they haven’t been spiritually built up in their souls (Psa. 49, Acts 20:32). Those who constantly resist its pull will end up withstanding the gates of hell (Matt. 16:18).
8. Money drives the kingdoms of this world; it answers to everything there, and the actual season when the love of it would be overcome is after a believer has been empowered through the feast of charity (Christ) to seek first the everlasting Kingdom of God and its righteousness (Eccl. 10:19, 1Tim. 1:5, Matt 6:33)
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