I read I think five different about five different people in the Bible who God made rich I'll name a
couple of them you'll know them of course Abraham it says in God made Abraham rich God made Isaac
rich God made Solomon the richest King God said to Solomon when he met Solomon in a dream and he
said what do you want and he said I want wisdom to lead your people and God said because you did
not ask for riches power wealth or the head of your enemy I'm gonna give you riches power and
wealth and then God went on to say you will be the richest king who ever lived and there'll be
no king after you who would be more wealthy than you now how many of you understand that
Solomon's riches was directly attached to his relationship with God help me understand that
Abraham's riches can you turn those two lights down please sorry Abraham's riches were directly
attached to his relationship with God are you all right I'm saying I'm saying wealth is not
a sign of your relationship with God unless it is so I'm not saying that everyone who's
wealthy has a relationship with God but I'm saying when God makes you wealthy then that
wealth is a directory that is directly related to your relationship with God so I'm saying let's not
react and say oh wealth isn't a sign that you have a relationship with God sometimes it is
and I understand what we're saying we're saying well you can be poor and have relationship with
God of course you can but let's not go to the other extreme and say that God doesn't make
some people rich and if God made him rich what what's your problem with them okay well anyway
no I'm right Genesis 13 - now Abraham was very rich in livestock silver and gold you
know Boaz Ruth's husband was rich you know we could probably assume that Esther was pretty
well-off and it goes on and on like that so I you know I almost feel like I need to go through and
repeat everything I just shared because there is such you know if you write anything like this on
social networking you will be blasted you will have I will have 200-300 negative comments about
wealth and I'm like I don't understand why we're going we all want to go to heaven and be wealthy
but for some reason we're opposed to people who are wealthy on earth so now I'm trying
Deuteronomy 8:18 says but you shall remember that your Lord your God for is he who has given
you the power to make wealth that he may confirm his covenant what she swore to your father's to
this day I want to read the whole passage to you one more time but remember the Lord your God for
is he who has given you power to make wealth that for the reason of that he might confirm
his covenant which he swore to your father's to this day how many understand in the case
of the Jewish people in Israel when they were wealthy it was a direct sign of the relationship
with God because God said I'm gonna make you wealthy as a sign of my covenant with you okay
it's funny that so many people that live poor ask rich people for money and then
they don't like the rich people that give them the money do you know that Jesus told
more parables about money than any other subject the parables of the miners the
parables the talents the parables of the lost coin yeah the Jesus talked more about
money than any other thing any other single thing in the around the subject of parables
you