God’s Elder Must be Free from the Love of Money

Chapter 12

Again, this is one of those areas where I have been sorely lacking for at least two full decades. As a new believer, I had no problem because I didn’t make much in the way of income. Then, along came Satan. I got a real job, making pretty good money and voila! I got sidetracked. My wife and I currently make nearly $90,000 a year and that ain’t hay. But I have never quit studying God’s word. That is the only thing that saved me (figuratively speaking). As I continued reading God’s word, I became aware that I was forfeiting my calling to preach the word for the love of money (Matt. 13:22). Please trust me brethren when I say, we who are called of God are not exempt from the temptation of those who are not. The difference between us and them is that we listen when God speaks.

I have such a yearning to be faithful to my calling today, that I haven’t a doubt in a million that God has indeed placed this yearning in my soul. I am free from the love of money. My love of money ceases when it fails to allow me to preach the word in season and out. When, at the end of the rainbow, money fails to produce fruit, it has failed to produce God’s purpose. When God’s word says God’s Elder in God’s church must be free from the love of money, it means plain and simply that God’s Elder must be free from the love of money. There is no human counterpart to such freedom. It is beyond the wildest imaginations of man’s heart. God’s Elder must be free from the love of money!