Faith & Finance with Rob West
If you make $65,000 a year after taxes and have no children, you’re in the wealthiest 1% of the global population. If we consider ourselves in the top 1%, how will that affect our financial decisions as stewards of God’s resources? John Cortines joins us today with some fascinating insights about Jesus and the wealthy. John Cortines is the Director of Generosity at the MacLellan Foundation and the co-author of God and Money: How We Discovered True Riches at Harvard Business School and True Riches: What Jesus Really Said About Money and Your Heart.

So, if we go through the four Gospels and find the times Jesus interacted with a wealthy person, it happened a lot. He had a pretty unique pattern, and it was three things:
So for us, in our wealth today, Jesus loves us, invites us, and challenges us.
Jesus said You can’t serve God and money. Money promises us Pleasure, Possessions, Protection, and Position, but it can’t give us those things. We have to look for God to get them eternally and in truth.

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While he might ask us to do that, this is the only time Jesus tells anyone to sell it all in Scripture.
Zacchaeus gave away half of his wealth, Peter left his boats, and Nicodemus, after the crucifixion, spent a fortune on the burial spices for Jesus, gaoing public with his faith.
The beauty is that it will look different for each of us as we read Scripture carefully and listen for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But we can be sure God will challenge us to mobilize our wealth in this world to bless people and to bring Him glory.
We want to invite them into a deeper, right relationship with God and others. There are four areas where we can do this:
When we use our wealth for the benefit of others, it makes us richer spiritually. God is with us in that.
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