Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

etter understood! Great possessions are generally accompanied with
pride, idleness, and luxury, and these are the greatest enemies to
salvation.
What opinion should we form of a rich man who, in a collection for a
public charity, only threw in a handful of halfpence?
What blindness is it for a man to lay up that as a treasure which must
necessarily perish! A heart designed for God and eternity is terribly
degraded by being fixed on those things which are subject to corruption.
"But may we not lay up treasure innocently?" Yes, 1. If you can do it
without setting your heart on it, which is almost impossible: and, 2. If
there be neither widows nor orphans, destitute nor distressed persons, in
the place where you live.
In every man professing Christianity, the religion of Jesus Christ says
most authoritatively, "With every man who is pinched by poverty, share
what the providence of God has not made absolutely necessary for thy
own support."
A rich man is a man who gets all he can, saves all he can, and keeps
all he has gotten. Speak, reason! Speak, conscience! (for God has already
spoken,) Can such a person enter into the kingdom of God? All, No!
A man of the world cannot be a truly religious character. He who gives
his heart to the world robs God of it; and, in snatching at the shadow of
earthly good, loses substantial and eternal blessedness.
The affluently rich, full of sensuality, and pampered with the good
things of this life, are only occupied with what they shall eat, what they
shall drink, how they shall amuse and sport themselves, and wherewithal
they shall be clothed according to the endless changes in fantastic flippery
fashions; are too busy or too brutally happy to attend to the call of the
gospel; and because it would break in upon their gratifications, they hate