Quote: Luke 12:33 KING JAMES VERSION
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. {12:34} For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. {12:35} Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning; {12:36} And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
^^^^^Here, Jesus says to sell your stuff and give to the poor and you will have treasures in heaven. Those treasures can’t be stolen by thieves and moths can’t eat it.
Quote:Mark 10:21 KING JAMES VERSION
Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
^^^^^Here, Jesus says to sell your stuff and give to the poor and you will have treasures in heaven.
Quote:Matthew 19:27 KING JAMES VERSION
Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? {19:28} And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. {19:29} And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. {19:30} But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first. {20:1} For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. {20:2} And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. {20:3} And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
^^^^^Here and elsewhere, Jesus wants you to dump all your belongings, to cut ties with your family members, love Jesus more than you father, mother, brother, sister and you will 100x times more and an everlasting life.
Quote:Mark 12:41 KING JAMES VERSION
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. {12:42} And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. {12:43} And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: {12:44} For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
^^^^^Jesus is watching the treasury chest. A woman comes and drops 2 coins of little value. Jesus calls his disciples “Yo, check this out. This lady gave everything she had and that is the way to do it.”
Quote:Acts 16:30 KING JAMES VERSION
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? {16:31} And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
^^^^^Jesus (using Paul’s body), he forgot to tell the guy to sell all his stuff and give it to the poor.
Quote:Luke 14:12 KING JAMES VERSION
Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. {14:13} But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: {14:14} And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. {14:15} And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
^^^^^Here, Jesus says to make dinner and don’t invite your friends, brothers, kinsmen or rich neighbors. Invite the poor, maimed, lame, blind.
Then, you’ll have treasures in heaven.
However, I thought that you have to sell your stuff and give the money to the poor. How are you going to have a dinner party if you sold your house, your furniture, your refrigerator, your cooking equipment, your utensils?
Quote:Ephesians 2:8 KING JAMES VERSION
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: {2:9} Not of works, lest any man should boast. {2:10} For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
^^^^^Here, Jesus (using Paul’s body) says that faith saves you. You don’t actually need to sell your stuff and give to the poor.
You are already suppose to be helping the poor but that is not part of the contract to get into Heaven.
