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HEAVENLY WEALTH
Like John, I could explain it to you but you wouldn't nuderstand because I cannot explain it other than, YOU WANT TO GO THERE. I will show some photos that I have taken from my own backyard that can best explain it in my eyes. Then, at the bottom of this page, we have written what we consider Heavenly Wealth to be.
IN THESE INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL PICTURES....
TAKEN OF THE HEAVENS....
WOULD GOLD AND SILVER MAKE THESE CLOUDS ANY MORE BEAUTIFUL
WOULD GOLD AND SILVER PURCHASE ANYTHING IN THESE CLOUDS
WOULD GOLD AND SILVER MATTER TO THESE CLOUDS
WILL GOLD AND SILVER PURCHASE A TICKET TO HEAVEN?
IF YOU LAID GOLD AND SILVER ON THESE CLOUDS, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
WHATS MORE PRICELESS? THE INNOCENCE OF A CHILD? OR 250 MILLION DOLLARS?
WOULD YOU SELL YOUR CHILD AT ANY PRICE?
NO. BECAUSE CHILDREN ARE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
1JN 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.
the wealth and riches of the kingdom of heaven are the children. NO GOLD AND NO SILVER WILL EVER MATCH A CHILDS INNOCENCE.
ask yourself this question and then after you answer it, do yourself a favor and stay away from those who speak of money when they Preach.
WHAT IS MONEY TO A FIVE YEAR OLD? THEY BELEIVE THINGS JUST COME. THEY DON'T WORRY ABOUT FOOD BECAUSE THEY DO NOT KNOW IT COSTS MONEY. THEY DESTROY THEIR TOYS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF MONEY.
AS CHRIST SAID, "IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FAITH OF A CHILD, YOU WILL NEVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN".
the faith of a child is easily explained.
they do not worry because they do not know the cost. they just know. they just beleive.
SHOW ME SOMEONE WITH MONEY AND I'LL SHOW YOU SOMEONE WHO WORRIES.
to worry is a sin, because to worry is to deny faith. if a child worries, then it is because their parents taught them to worry. Children are innocent and this is because they do not have money nor do they care about money and they do not worry.
Ask yourself this question.
Can any pricetag whatsoever, replace a child?
5 million? 10 million? one hundred billion?
NOT A CHANCE. YET PARENTS LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN ALL OF THE TIME TO GO MAKE MONEY IN ORDER TO HAVE NICE THINGS? IMAGINE. I ONCE HEARD A WOMAN (WHO HAD TWO CHILDREN) TALK ABOUT HOW SHE HAD TO WORK A FULL TIME JOB SO THAT HER HUSBAND (SHE FORGOT HERSELF IN THIS STORY) COULD DRIVE A SUBURBAN SUV. IMAGINE THAT. A SUBURBAN BEING MORE IMPORTANT THAN TWO CHILDREN.
How do your children see you? How often do they see you? Who is their role model? Jesus Christ or Micheal Jordon? How do you see them? How much time do you spend with them? How much of the Word of God do you teach them? These questions are not to judge you, for you do not have to tell us the answers. These questions are for you to think about because they are very important. Your children are the Kingdom of Heaven. Our children will be a most important part of whether or not we enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
I look at my 5 and 6 year old children as the kingdom of Heaven. We are very poor because I refuse to let my wife work and so we are "sanctioned" (fined) because I refuse to have my wife work. We also have gotten in trouble because we refuse to send our children to any school other than homeschool. However, my 6 year old son can recite several scriptures in a row and he can say them with meaning and understanding because of the fact that we do the opposite of what the World does. IT WORKS!!
Think about what Christ said in reference to children, "for such is the Kingdom of Heaven". So what if you have the Kingdom of Heaven "cussing", yelling, screaming, bodyslamming, talking about sex, idolizing people who make millions playing games, playing Nintendo, watching cartoons, adults, and even people in the spotlight, fighting and arguing as though they were children who never had any parents at home. This is probably because they never did.
Christ will not look to these children for the way they act or behave.
He will go straight to the parents. Imagine the mothers who went to work simply for the fact that mom and dad wanted to have "nice things". All the while sacrificing their children to these "nice things".
How many mothers could stay at home if their family had one less car? One Less bedroom?
A little smaller house? A little less jewelry or even better, A LOT LESS JEWELRY, which does nothing for a persons apprearance and in all actuality, makes them look to be insecure by looking to dress themselves up with inantimate objects?
A 25 INCH TV instead of a wide screen?
An old refrigerator instead of a new one?
A little less food so a little less obesity?
One less workday for dad, a lot less stress for mom?
A Nissan Sentra instead of a Lexus?
A "fixerupper" instead of a track house which looks like all of the others anyways?
A one hundred dollar suit instead of a thousand dollar suit?
Dinner at home instead of dinner at...(I don't know? Think of some funky name for me. :-))
SEE WHAT ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE?
INSECURE VANITY WHICH LEADS TO THE PIT OF HELL. TO HAVE THE RESPECT OF PERSONS IS WHY THE WORLD IS SO BLIND AS IT IS.
I DON'T JUST MEAN THIS IN TERMS OF THE WORLD, I SEE IT JUST AS BADLY IN RELIGION.
A PREACHER DRIVING A LEXUS FOR EXAMPLE.
Would this impress God? It couldn't, its not human.
So who would this man be trying to impress?
There is a very important reason why The King of Kings and The Lord of Lords rode into Jerusalem on a baby donkey and not a beautiful Stallion.
It was so the Worldly could not see him, and only those who were not could.
To have Worldly Vain belongings will never be worth any woman going to work and letting someone raise their children who are not paid to love and care, but to simply watch. But this can never be enough.
IN THIS DAY AND AGE, YOU HAVE TO BE FIRM, PRESENT, AND LONGSUFFERING FROM THE "GET GO" BECAUSE YOUR CHILDREN ARE WALKING OUT INTO A WORLD THAT DOES EVERYTHING OPPOSITE TO WHAT CHRIST SAID TO DO AND TELLING YOUR CHILDREN THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH YOU, THAT THEY CAN CALL THE POLICE ON YOU, THAT YOU ARE MEAN, HARD, HARSH AND UNFAIR AND THAT THEY CAN LEAVE, AND THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THEY DO AND THESE THINGS ARE JUST FOR STARTERS.
imagine this. if our own family members and our childrens own parents said these things to them, imagine what the world is saying to them.
Divorce is devastation. Plain and Simple. We are still paying for our Worldly ways even though we divorced 10 years ago. However, our children will suffer far more than we and it was not even their fault.
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