If you have been watching the circular media, there are magazine articles and television programs

and reviving that age, old question, and what is happiness, and how can I get it?

I guess we have come so far in our prosperity, we have come so far in our technology, we have

come so far in our science, and we're finding that no penacea,

and that emptiness and the void that is in the heart of a secular man and a secular woman,

is only growing.

Nothing is fulfilling it.

Some think that happiness can be purchased,

so they gave it their all in order to find it, but they still can't find it.

There are some people who think that money will buy them happiness, and when they get the money, they discover that there's no happiness there.

Somehow our society seemed to be spending their health to get wealth,

and once they get wealth, they spend their wealth in order to get their health back.

It's too late by that time.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the first beatitude in Matthew 5.3, Jesus said,

happy are those who are poor in spirit. Now, there are some sanctimonious people who take that out of context and say, happy are the poor.

That's not what the Bible said.

There is no virtue in poverty.

And I am no prosperity preacher, but I want to tell you, there is no virtue in poverty.

Amen?

And those who twist the scripture and say, blessed are the poor, it is not what Jesus said.

It takes it completely out of context.

It messes up the scripture.

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