Can a man be rich and righteous? - Admonition 124

Job 1:3, 1Jesus said it was harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. Is it possible then to even be a righteous person and rich at the same time? The Bible tells us “Yes,” but the character of the individual will determine their destiny. Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the...

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Aaron Cozort: Can a man be rich
and righteous?

The answer to that is in
Scripture.

Some might quote Jesus as saying
that it's harder for a rich man

to enter the Kingdom of God then
for a camel to go through the

eye of a needle, but there's
another passage to consider as

well.

Job Chapter one verse three
concerning Job, we read, his

possessions were 7,000 sheep,
3000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen,

500 female donkeys, and a very
large household so that this man

was the greatest of all the
people of the east.

Sounds like a rich man...

but what was his character like?

Verse One says he was blameless
and upright, one who feared God

and shunned evil.

This man was righteous because
his faith in God and his

obedience to God came before his
riches and was there long after

his riches were gone.

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Can a man be rich and righteous? - Admonition 124