A Closer Look @ The Love of Money – Part 10

1) The love of money or of what money can do is a nature that men firstly acquire through their romance with any promise that this world can offer, or through any knowledge or environment that is subject to lust (Rom. 13:14, Jas. 1:14-15).

2) A believer can’t claim in the sight of the LORD that he has overcome all evil, or the love of money and what money can do, if his soul hasn’t ascended out of the reach of this world, or been separated from the love of the Father to a place where his soul truly prospers with life everlasting (1Tim. 6:10a, 1Jn. 2:15, 1Cor. 2:6-8).

3) The love of money or of what money can do is a puzzle or riddle to every mind that is firstly natural or cerebral. The faith in Christ helps such a one to begin the process of resolving this puzzle, but because the source of this love is from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, it will take the judgments of love that stream from Father of light to fully do so; and to, thereby, be raised into becoming trees of righteousness (1Cor. 2:14-15a, Jas. 1:17, Isa. 61:3).

4) The love of money or of what money can do is what seduces men to go beyond the borders of having and using things, to succumbing to its pull for more of the ownership and amassing of things that can’t satisfy the soul of man (1Cor. 7:30-31, Lk. 12:13-15).

5) If you are looking for the worldly in the bible, the love of money (or of what it can do) will help you find it (2Tim. 4:3/3:7). If you are looking for how to discern and despise this world from the scriptures, the presence of a poor spirit will help you find it (Matt. 6:24/5:3, 1Jn. 2:15-17).

6) The love of money is a love that can thrive when we mind high things or can’t be content with food and raiment (1Tim. 6:8-10, 17). It thrives as long as we can lavish our affection on anything that is inferior to things above; which are things that truly satisfies the soul because such things are everlasting and eternal in nature (Col. 3:1-4).

7) A believer who has been fully healed from the love of money or the unknown evil that accompanies it, is one who – by securing a single eye/mind called Christ – journeys through seasons where his soul prospers with the economy of the truth in God the Father, the everlasting measures of the most holy life that should embalm our whole body (soul) with enough light to relate with the God of glory (Matt. 6:19-22, 1Cor. 2:16, 1Pet. 5:10).