Judas Iscariot went to church with Jesus for three years, only to sell his soul to the devil for thirty pieces of silver---or a pocketful of money.
Judas walked and talked with Jesus. He saw the miracles that Jesus performed and he heard the words that Jesus spoke. But when money just fell out of the sky, Judas turned his back against Jesus and stepped into the darkness---from which he never returned.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1st Timothy 6:10)
By itself, money is not evil; but, when people fall in love with money, a great change happens in their minds and in their hearts.
The love of money produces envy, jealousy, greed, strife, contention, division, divorce, drugs, disobedience, prostitution, pornography, gambling, and also hypocrisy, suicides, murders, and assassinations.
When people love money, money becomes their idol, their god, and the object for all of their faith, devotion, affection, and worship: for now they believe that money is the answer to all of their dreams and visions, the solution to all of their problems, and they perceive themselves as gods: believing they can do all things because they are masters of the vault. They see themselves as above the laws of man, but also above the laws of God, for they believe that money can buy anything, even their salvation at the store of religion.
There are many lessons to be learned from the life of Judas Iscariot, chief of which is the love of money. Judas closed the door to heaven and went to hell because he turned his back against Jesus Christ the Lord, the only person who could save his soul from eternal damnation---for nothing more than a pocketful of money.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8: 36, 37)
Judas walked and talked with Jesus. He saw the miracles that Jesus performed and he heard the words that Jesus spoke. But when money just fell out of the sky, Judas turned his back against Jesus and stepped into the darkness---from which he never returned.
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. (1st Timothy 6:10)
By itself, money is not evil; but, when people fall in love with money, a great change happens in their minds and in their hearts.
The love of money produces envy, jealousy, greed, strife, contention, division, divorce, drugs, disobedience, prostitution, pornography, gambling, and also hypocrisy, suicides, murders, and assassinations.
When people love money, money becomes their idol, their god, and the object for all of their faith, devotion, affection, and worship: for now they believe that money is the answer to all of their dreams and visions, the solution to all of their problems, and they perceive themselves as gods: believing they can do all things because they are masters of the vault. They see themselves as above the laws of man, but also above the laws of God, for they believe that money can buy anything, even their salvation at the store of religion.
There are many lessons to be learned from the life of Judas Iscariot, chief of which is the love of money. Judas closed the door to heaven and went to hell because he turned his back against Jesus Christ the Lord, the only person who could save his soul from eternal damnation---for nothing more than a pocketful of money.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Mark 8: 36, 37)
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