Peníze nejsou zlo, ale láska k penězům je zlá, cituje mnoho křesťanů. Zní to tak zbožně a samozřejmě je to pravda, protože Bible říká v 1 Timothy 6:10, that the love of money is the root of all evil. Nicméně, do these words come from a righteous heart that belongs to Jesus or from a corrupt heart that is selfish and belongs to the mammon? Protože mnohokrát, these words are used by Christians to cover up their love for money and their covetousness and desire for riches. What does the Bible say about the love for money and the desire for riches and what happens when money becomes your god?
The warning of false teachers who consider godliness a way of gain and make merchandise of the believers
V 1 Timothy 6:1-10, Paul warned Timothy of false teachers, who taught another doctrine, contrary to his doctrine and the wholesome words, even the words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to godliness. These false teachers considered godliness as a way of gain.
But godliness with contentment is great gain. Neboť jsme si na tento svět nic nepřinesli, a je jisté, že nemůžeme nic vynést. A s jídlem a oděvem buďme spokojeni. Ale ti, kteří budou bohatí, upadnou do pokušení a léčky, a do mnoha pošetilých a zraňujících žádostí, které utápí lidi ve zkáze a záhubě. Neboť láska k penězům je kořenem všeho zla: po kterém zatímco někteří toužili po, zmýlili se od víry, a probodli se mnoha bolestmi. Ale ty, Ó muži Boží, utéct z těchto věcí; a následovat spravedlnost, zbožnost, víra, milovat, trpělivost, pokora. Bojuj dobrý boj víry, uchopit věčný život, k čemuž jsi také povolán, a před mnoha svědky vyznával dobré povolání (1 Timothy 6:6-12)
Peter also warned of false teachers, who would bring in damnable heresies and through covetousness with feigned words make merchandise of the believers. (2 Petr 2:1-4).
What does the Bible say about the love for money?
The Bible says that the love for money is the root of all evil. Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 6:10, že tito, who will be rich shall fall into temptation and a snare, a do mnoha pošetilých a zraňujících žádostí, které utápí lidi ve zkáze a záhubě. Neboť láska k penězům je kořenem všeho zla, po kterém zatímco někteří toužili po, they have been led astray from the faith, a probodli se mnoha bolestmi.
Bohužel, many Christians have ignored this warning.
Many Christians have been deceived by false doctrines, which derived from covetousness (chamtivost) and focus on (fulfilling) the lusts and desires of the carnal man and earthly prosperity.
Because of these false doctrines, many Christians have been deceived and have come under the control of the mammon. They have a love for money and are controlled by greed, whereby they are never satisfied and never have enough but keep lusting for more money.
Everything revolves around money in their lives.
They use Biblical principles prayers and the words of God for their carnal lusts and desires and apply soulish manipulative methods in the spiritual realm to get money and draw the riches of this world to them, just like those, kteří patří světu a vládci tohoto světa, the devil and don’t know God.
By faith in their thoughts, slova, and methods they receive what they want. Nicméně, because they are carnal they don’t know that by applying these deceptive methods and participating in occult practices, they also open the gates for the darkness and not only receive earthly riches, but also corruption and mischief of the world (Přečtěte si také: Je život seberealizující proroctví?)
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, you can’t serve God
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, kde můra a rez zkorumpovaná, a kde zloději prolomí a ukradne: Ale položte se pro sebe poklady v nebi, kde ani můra, ani rezavě zkorumpovaná, a kde zloději se nerozpadnou ani neukradnou: Kde je váš poklad, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:19-21)
No man can serve two masters: protože ten bude nenávidět, a milovat druhého; nebo jinak bude držet jednoho, a pohrdat druhým. Ye cannot serve God and mammon (Matthew 6:24)
Jesus warned many times about the danger of love for money and the deceitfulness of riches. Ježíš řekl, mimo jiné, that you can’t serve two masters. Because you will either hate the one and love the other or you will hold to one and despise the other. Proto, you can’t serve God and mammon.
Nicméně, many preachers say the opposite and claim that you can love both and serve both.
And because many Christians believe the words of preachers above the words of Jesus, they believe this lie and walk in this lie and have a love for money and are focused on money and put their trust in money, stejně jako svět (Přečtěte si také: Proč se káže evangelium prosperity?).
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, you shall trust in money instead of God
Tak praví Pán, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, rozsudek, a spravedlnost, in the earth: for in these things I delight, praví Pán (Jeremiáš 9:23-24)
A On (Ježíš) řekl jim, Dávejte pozor, a pozor na žádostivost: pro život člověka není v hojnosti věcí, které má (Luke 12:15)
Ale Slovo říká, that you shouldn’t trust in money, but you should trust in God. Money is a tool on earth and should remain a tool and must not become a god in the lives of Christians.
Nicméně, many Christians rely more on money than God, stejně jako svět.
Maybe money has great value on earth, but money has no value in God’s Kingdom.
You can’t buy access to God’s Kingdom, nor buy the things of God’s Kingdom.
In contrary to the people on earth, God is not for sale and you can’t impress God with money and/or bribe God with money. And the Holy Spirit is also not for sale (Luke 12:15-21, Akty 8:17-24).
Only Jesus Christ can save and keep you. His blood can cleanse you from all your sins and iniquities and justify you and reconcile you with God. Only through Jesus Christ you can enter the Kingdom of God and receive the Holy Spirit.
And as long as you put your trust in Jesus and obey Him and keep His commandments, you will stand and remain saved (Přečtěte si také: What are the commandments of God and the commandments of Jesus?).
Jesus commanded the church in Laodicea to repent
That’s why Jesus commanded the church in Laodicea to repent. The church was very prosperous and wealthy and trusted in his riches. The church had need of nothing. Ačkoli, that’s what the church thought.
In the eyes of people, the church was wealthy, prosperující, and considered blessed by God. Nicméně,, in God’s eyes, the church was not blessed, bohatý, and prosperous at all, but lukewarm, whereby Jesus spewed the church out of His mouth, and wretched, miserable, chudý, roleta, a nahá.
Jesus counseled the church to buy of Him gold refined in the fire, so that they would become rich, a bílé roucho, so that they would be clothed and cover the shame of their nakedness, and anoint their eyes with eyesalve, so that they would see (Odhalení 3:14-22).
Každý, who trusts in money and the riches of this world shall be deceived.
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, you shall leave the straight ways of God
When money becomes your god and your love for money is greater than your love for God, you shall be tempted to leave the straight ways of God and enter the corrupt ways of the world.
Because the way the world operates is often tempting and promising
If the love for money controls your life, budeš lhát, podvádět, and withhold things to earn more. Maybe you shall do undeclared work, creative accounting, ukrást, spáchat podvod, evade taxes and regulations, and compromise with evil to fulfill the lusts of the flesh.
Because of that you shall leave the straight way of God and enter the crooked way of the world and exchange good for evil.
And to ease your conscious that silently accuses you in the background (and maybe even the people, who are witnesses of your evil works), you shall come up with all kinds of excuses, argumenty, and lies and play the victim to approve your evil behavior and wicked works and to exonerate yourself from evil.
But it doesn’t matter how many arguments you use, you shall never succeed in making evil good. Because to God everything is settled forever. And what is settled with God forever is settled in everyone’s conscious.
Because since the fall of man, every person has knowledge of good and evil. Therefore no one can provide a valid excuse for evil behavior and the justification of wickedness (Přečtěte si také: Můžete použít rozbitý svět jako omluvu??).
God sees everything. He sees the heart and the evil that derives from an evil heart. He sees how people reject the Word of God by doing evil and putting Jesus to an open shame (Přečtěte si také: Můžeš znovu ukřižovat Ježíše a vystavit ho otevřené hanbě??).
People can say they are Christians and believe and testify of Jesus, but the testimony of their works proves whether they belong to God and are born of Him and whether they love Jesus and follow Him or not.
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, the words of God shall choke in your life
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, a klamu bohatství, and the lusts of other things entering in, udusit slovo, and it becomes unfruitful (Označit 4:18-19)
In the parable of the sower Jesus revealed again the danger and the consequences of the love for money and the deceitfulness of riches.
Ježíš řekl, that the cares of this world, klamnost bohatství, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the words of God.
Believers can hear and receive the words of God, but if the cares (the distractions) of this world and the deceitfulness of riches and the lusts of all other things, control their lives, the words of God shall choke and become unfruitful in the lives of believers (Přečtěte si také: Čtyři druhy věřících)
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, the words of God shall be used for gain and the believers as merchandise
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, a říct, Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us. Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest (Micah 3:11-12)
When Christians have a love for money, they shall use the gospel and the words of God and prayer solemnly as a tool to become wealthy.
Kazatelé, who have a love for money are led by a spirit of greed and focus on gain. They misuse the gospel for the enrichment of themselves.
They consider the faith as a business, and the church as a company, and the believers as merchandise.
Their mission is not the saving and the keeping of souls, though most of them say they do, but their mission is profit maximization (k. Ezechiel 22:27, 2 Petr 2:1-4 (Přečtěte si také: Jsou duše spaseny, fed and tended in church?).
To accomplish their mission, they rely on their own human wisdom, vhled, and ability and use the knowledge and wisdom of the world.
They don’t focus on Jesus and His will, but on the will, potřeby, and desires of people and respond to it.
And so they give the church a modern makeover, so that the interior of the church becomes more appealing to the senses of the (tělesný) muž. They adjust the church service and sermons to the will and desires of man and what people want to hear. And they organize pleasant activities and trips, to attract and keep as many people as possible. Because more people means more money and therefore more gain.
By using begging techniques, they pull on the emotions of church visitors to collect as much money as possible. Protože tyto (tělesný) preachers don’t rely on God that He will provide, but they rely on people, who must provide money for them (Přečtěte si také: Peníze, peníze, peníze).
Prophets prophesy for money
There are many carnal apostles, proroci, evangelistů, faráři, a učitelé, who are always looking for an angle and only preach, modlit se, proroctví, and teach for money. They don’t take action before they see money. But such apostles, proroci, evangelistů, faráři, and teachers don’t know God and are not standing in His service.
If prophets prophecy for money, then they are not prophets but fortunetellers, who also only predict the future for money.
The sad thing is, that many Christians believe this insanity and spend (mnoho) money on these false prophets to receive a prophecy for their lives.
Many Christians pay for prayer, proroctví, anointing oil, holy water, atd. (Přečtěte si také: Are God’s people destroyed for a lack of knowledge?)
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, you shall not tithe and give offerings
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed Thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in ine house, and prove Me now herewith, praví Hospodin zástupů, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, praví Hospodin zástupů (Malachi 3:8-11)
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, you shall no longer give. You shall no longer pay tithes and offerings and remember the poor. But because you are led by greed, you shall keep your income for yourself and enrich yourself.
Many times the argument is used that Christians don’t live under the law in the Old Covenant anymore. Therefore Christians are not required to tithe and give offerings. But this argument is contrary to their other confessions. Since people like Abraham and Solomon and Scriptures from the Old Testament are constantly used and cited to condone their greed and love for money and their focus on wealth. This may be used and cited to receive money from God, but the words of God may not be used for giving to God.
The receiving part still applies, but the giving part is outdated and no longer applicable to the new man, who lives in the New Covenant?
We indeed don’t live under the law of Moses. But before the law of Moses, Abraham and many others gave a tenth of their income and the firstlings of their profit out of gratitude to God. They didn’t have to tithe but they wanted to tithe and did tithe.
By giving they yielded themselves to God and acknowledged God as the God and Lord of their lives and their Provider.
Money was not important, but God was important to them, which they showed by their works
Should Christians tithe to the church?
Christians don’t have to tithe to the church, because everything is of God. This is another argument that is based on the first church and cited by many Christians to not have to tithe and give offerings. Ale lidé, who say these pious words often give less than 1 percent (Akty 4:32-37).
je to pozoruhodné, how many Scriptures are taken out of context and how many excuses and arguments are used and cited by Christians to back out of their obligations and responsibilities.
When someone refuses to tithe and give offerings, it says more about the person than the words of the person.
If Christians weren’t led by the love for money and greed, but by the Holy Spirit, they would tithe and give offerings, and many churches would not have financial problems and lay waste and are leased or sold to worldly bodies (agencies, organizations).
Každý, both poor and rich, should at least give a tenth of their income out of love and gratitude towards God, not because they have to but because they want to.
Ano, even someone, who doesn’t receive much and maybe struggles to make ends meet. That person should definitely give, so that by his or her deed the person shows, that he or she is thankful and trusts in God and not in his or her money. God shall see it and provides, protože Bůh je Poskytovatelem těm, kdo Ho milují a bojí se Ho, a proto poslouchají Jeho slova a uplatňují Jeho slova ve svém životě.
Chudá vdova v chrámu, která dala všechno, co měla, svým skutkem ukázala, jak moc Boha miluje a jakou cenu pro ni Bůh má, jmenovitě všechno (Označit 12:43-44, Luke 21:1-4).
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, zapřeš Ježíše
Na rozdíl od Judy, jeden z Ježíšů’ učedníci. Jude měl lásku k penězům a tato láska řídila jeho život. Jeho láska k penězům byla větší než jeho láska k Ježíši.
Protože jeho láska k penězům byla větší než láska k Ježíši, Juda zradil Ježíše a prodal Ježíše za třicet stříbrných náboženským vůdcům Domu Izraele.
Jude si myslel, že jeho čin ho učiní bohatým a šťastným, ale Jude byl oklamán.
Jeho láska k penězům a jeho výsledný čin nepřinesly Judovi vůbec žádný zisk. Ale jeho korupční čin, která vycházela z jeho zkaženého srdce, přivedl Judu k smrti.
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, oklameš Ducha svatého
To byl i případ Ananiáše a Safiry, kteří byli členy první církve. Činili pokání (pro oči lidí) a zřejmě pokřtěn, apoštolové na ně vložili ruce ke křtu Duchem svatým.
Ale láska k penězům vládla v jejich srdcích a ovládala životy Ananiáše a Safiry, kdy satan měl moc nad jejich životy.
Ananiáš a Safira byli vedeni chamtivostí a mysleli si, že mohou oklamat Ducha svatého, a proto Duchu svatému lhali. Protože Boha neznali a Hospodina se nebáli, mysleli si, že se svou lží projdou a obohatí se. Ale jejich čin jim nic nepřinesl, ale nechat je umřít (Akty 5:1-11)
Když se peníze stanou vaším bohem, nebudeš moci odolat značce
A stejně jako Jude, Ananiáš, a Safira, existuje mnoho křesťanů, jejichž láska k penězům je větší než jejich láska k Ježíši, čímž satan vládne v jejich srdcích a má moc nad jejich životy.
A protože mají lásku k penězům a jejich láska k penězům je větší než jejich láska k Bohu Otci, Ježíš Syn, a Duch svatý, nebudou schopni odolat značce, která přijde (Odhalení 13:16-17).
Nebudou moci zůstat věrní Ježíši a zůstat stát ve víře v poslušnosti slovům Božím, Kdo varoval skrze Slovo a odhalil důsledky, ale podlehnou tlaku světa a antikrista.
Existují křesťané, kteří si myslí, že mohou získat znamení a poté činit pokání, aby nebyli světem odmítnuti a vyloučeni ze společnosti, ale ani nebýt odmítnut Bohem v den soudu a vyloučen z nového nebe a nové země a uvržen do věčného ohnivého jezera.
Chtějí být přítelem světa a přítelem Boha. Ale to je nemožné!
Každý, kdo chce být přítelem světa a patřit světu, přijme znamení šelmy a zůstane součástí společnosti a bude žít prosperující bez pronásledování..
Ale ty, kteří jsou Božími přáteli a patří Ježíši a jsou vedeni Duchem svatým, značku odmítnou se všemi důsledky.
Volba, kterou uděláte, závisí na lásce, která vládne ve vašem srdci a vládne ve vašem životě.
Ať se peníze nestanou vaším bohem, ale ať je vaším Bohem Ježíš
Udržujte svůj život bez lásky k penězům, a buď spokojený s tím, co máš, neboť řekl, "Nikdy tě neopustím ani neopustím." Můžeme tedy s jistotou říci, „Pán je můj Pomocník; nebudu se bát; co mi může člověk udělat?” (Židům 13:5 ESV)
Proto (případně), čiňte pokání a ať už peníze nejsou vaším bohem. Nenechte se vést chamtivostí (chamtivost) a klamu bohatství, ale ať je Ježíš Bohem tvého života a dej se vést Duchem svatým a buď spokojen. Protože zbožnost se spokojeností je velký zisk.
Nechte Ježíše, aby byl láskou vašeho života místo peněz
Vlož svou důvěru v Ježíše a následuj Ho a buduj se ve své nejsvětější víře, abyste duchovně dozráli a stali se duchovně silnými, abyste byli schopni vidět podvody světa a byli schopni odolat pokušením, útlak, a pronásledování světa a znamení šelmy. A stejně jako Ježíš, nebudeš se klanět vládci tohoto světa, Satan, a nebude mít ve vás nic, ale zůstaneš stát na Slovu a zůstaneš věrný Ježíši až do konce.
‚Buď solí země’
