Does God Want Us To Be Wealthy?

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🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today.
0:06.9	Joe's going to start off this hour. Joe's in Albany, New York. Joe, what are you thankful for?
0:12.4	Hey, Dave, I am thankful for God first and my 10-year-old daughter.
0:17.3	Awesome. What's her name?
0:19.6	My daughter's name is Aubrey.
0:21.0	Very cool.
0:22.0	Very cool.
0:22.7	How can we help you today, sir?
0:25.1	So I guess my question is kind of centered around God.
0:29.0	So main question is, does God want me or us to be wealthy?
0:37.6	I kind of wanted to ask you that because I feel like you have a pretty big business
0:42.0	and you have ties to people who are in church.
0:44.5	So maybe you could offer some biblical insight.
0:47.3	That way my finances and my spiritual life can be aligned a little bit more.
0:52.4	Yeah.
0:53.4	Okay.
0:59.4	Well, there's two ends of the spectrum uh in the christian world both of which uh create an inaccurate teaching of scripture one end of the spectrum
1:06.8	we call the prosperity gospel that god wants you to be rich, and if you're not rich,
1:11.6	you must not be right with God, and all this kind of stuff. And that's not biblical. You can't back
1:17.2	that up scripturally. The other end of the spectrum is that God says you have to be poor in order
1:22.3	to be holy, and that's actually not scriptural either. That's a form of heresy called
1:26.9	Gnosticism. So what actually happens is it's not scriptural either. That's a form of heresy called Gnosticism.
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