Part 6 (2/2)
Again the disciples were amazed The rich people would not like that!
The disciples were poor the rich
Jesus thought of a rich man whom he kneore fine purple clothes and ate the best food in the land And he thought of a poor beggar who sat all day long outside the rich man's house His body was covered with sores, and he was so hungry that he would have been glad to get the crumbs that fell from the rich s that came and licked his sores
Jesus continued, in a stern voice:
”Woe to you who are rich! For you have already had everything you are ever going to have! Woe to you who are well-fed! The tiry Woe to you who are enjoying yourselves all the time! Someday you eep Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you! It is easy to be popular if you aren't faithful to God That's the way it has always been”
Jesus knew that all of thes that money could buy They wanted the Messiah to come so that he would make them all rich And so Jesus said, to show the about what you are going to eat and drink and wear Why, that's the kind of thing the Ro”
He paused for aoverhead, and singing; and up the hillside the wild flowers ain:
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”Look at the birds of the air They never plant crops, or reap harvests, or gather the grain into barns Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them Are you not more important than birds? Think of the lilies of the field, how they grow They never yetSololory was not so beautifully clothed as one of these little flowers You people who have so little faith in God--think! If God clothes the flowers of the field, which are here today and gone todoiven all the food and clothes you need Never worry about tomorrow Tomorroill look after itself when it coht to live today”
There was another weakness that Jesus had seen in people, especially in the Pharisees They loved to show off their good deeds He had to speak about this too
”When you give soreat noise about it, like some people I could enerous they are If you give anything, keep quiet about it God will knohat you have done, and that's enough
”It's the sa on the street corners where everyone can see you There are o into your own room and pray with the door closed God will hear you, and he is the only one who needs to hear”
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Jesus had his adan to call him ”Master” and ”Lord” But Jesus did not think that they were all in earnest He spoke plainly about this also
”It won't do you any good to cos God expects of you Someday, I suppose you will cos you have done in my name And then I will have to say to you: 'I don't even knoho you are Go away!'
”If anyone hears s, and does what I tell him to do, he will be like a man who builds his house upon a rock The rain co there, because it is built upon a rock You will be strong like that house, if you do as I say But anyone who hears s and pays no attention to them is like a man who builds his house upon the sand When the rains and the floods and the winds come, the house will fall down and that will be the end of it You will be weak like that house, if you do not obey my words”
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Nohen the people heard how Jesus preached, they were ah he were God hiht They were always quoting soh they were afraid to speak for the you” He said, ”Listen to _an, and there could be noday Saturdayall the Jewish people went to attend the service in the synagogue The people would come in and take their places, with theof the service, everyone stood and faced in the direction of Jerusalem, and recited some verses froan: ”Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy ht”