In addition to what's out there, we need to pay careful attention to what's in here.

Do you love God? Do you have character? Do you have integrity? This is the fruit of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control manifest itself through you.

And what he's talking about is in the world, it's pretty much just about money. And we have judgment and evil thoughts,

James told us. And what that is, we're looking for people who can benefit us. Oh, you're beautiful.

Maybe we could date or marry or live together or sleep together. Oh, you make a lot of money. Well,

you could be good connections for networking. Oh, you're a high net worth person. That could really

benefit me. And what he says is what we can do is we can just look at everybody as a bank statement, not a human being. And as a result, we can overlook some of the best human beings. Because some of the best human beings, they don't have a great bank statement, but the ledger in heaven, they are rich in faith.

I don't mind if you're rich in finance. Doesn't bother me at all. It doesn't bother God at all.

But the question is, are you rich in faith? This is the economy that God cares about, not just the external, but the internal.

Here's the big idea. Who you are is more

important than what you have. And the truth is, life is not necessarily improved by just generating

more wealth. It's having better relationships. And so as you're looking for a spouse,

you better be looking inward. If you're looking for a spouse, you better be looking inward.

If you're looking for a friend, you better be looking inward.

If you're looking for people to do life together, you better be looking inward, not just outward.

And what he's talking about here is rich and poor.

And again, historically and categorically, we're rich. If you're in America,

right, they keep sending checks to your house with air conditioning and not making you pay your

rent. You're rich. You're doing good. Right. If you flush the toilet in your house,

winter, winter, chicken dinner, you're doing great. And so what we tend to do as Americans, we tend to go

onto social media and look at the most affluent people and then consider ourselves the poor. Instead,

we need to look globally and historically and say we're the rich because they're looking at us.

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