{"id":3731,"date":"2014-10-14T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/?p=3731"},"modified":"2014-10-13T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:14:16","slug":"bible-verse-of-the-day-10-14-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/bible-verse-of-the-day-10-14-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Verse of The Day &#8211; 10-14-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 10:25 (NKJV) 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today we want to take a couple minutes to dispel a myth and expose a false teaching in the church.<\/p>\n<p>The verse above has been used by many to try and convince believers that God hates wealth, He wants them to be poor and that having money will keep a person out of heaven. This is a blatant lie.<\/p>\n<p>The verse above states that it can be <i>difficult <\/i>for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, but He never said that it was impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The difference between the rich man who makes it and the one who doesn&#8217;t is in their priorities.<\/p>\n<p>A rich man who puts his money first will surely have a difficult time entering into the kingdom of heaven. But a rich man who loves God and handles his wealth according to God&#8217;s principles, putting <i>God<\/i>\u00a0first, will have no trouble whatsoever entering into the kingdom of heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Money is simply a tool. We use it to buy things we need. It can&#8217;t buy love, happiness, satisfaction or salvation. But it <i>can<\/i>\u00a0make our lives a whole lot easier if there is no lack of it and we handle it properly.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it is the <i>love<\/i>\u00a0of money that is the root of all evil, not money itself!<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Curt &amp; Pastor Ellie<\/p>\n<p>Seven Seas Ministries<br \/>\nP.O. Box 272<br \/>\nBradford, RI 02808<\/p>\n<p>401-315-0902<\/p>\n<p>If you know someone who will enjoy this or be encouraged by it, please feel free to share it with them!<\/p>\n<p>To have the Bible Verse of The Day delivered to your inbox each day, please enter your email address in the box near the upper right corner of this page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 10:25 (NKJV) 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d Today we want to take a couple minutes to dispel a myth and expose a false teaching in the church. The verse above has been used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1831],"tags":[1834,1835,1832,1833],"class_list":["post-3731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","tag-bible-verses-about-money","tag-bible-verses-about-wealth","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-money","tag-what-the-bible-says-about-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3731\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybibleverseoftheday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}