Why some rich and others poor?

My friends, what do you think when you see these pictures? Do you think they deserve it? Do you think they want to be in that position? Do you think it is their fault that they were born in poverty? Have you ever thought that the food that lay waste in your plate can feed them? The clean water you use for washing your expensive cars can satisfy their thirsty? The money you spend for your plasma TV 42" or pleasure can save their lives? The bed you sleep every night can contain many of them? The clothes in your cupboard can cover their body from cold and nakedness? Everyday they struggle to live, to eat, to drink, my friends. Do you think they want to be like that?

They are not drunk, they don't waste their money for pleasure, they just don't have enough, even for their primary needs. They are just childrens and old people and others are uneducated people, who used more of their power and skill to earn money. Do you think they want to be uneducated? Do you think they lack of ambition? Nobody wants to be stupid, everybody want to improve, but they just don't have a chance.

Everyday in their life, they have to choose between living or education, between cloth or food. They don't want to be in that position, but they have to. They don't know to whom they should ask for help, they put off their pride and start begging. Can you understand them? My friends, I am not talking about those who are poor because of lazy or addicted, please don't give them food. For Bible said, "If a man will not work, he shall not eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10)." But how about those who work hard, but still in needy, just because the circumstances are so bad? How about those family who father is sick and can't go to work but they need something to eat? How about those family who need to pay for hospital fee otherwise their mother's life is in danger? They are really needy, they need your love.

I lived in Indonesia for 23 years, some people are lazy, they deserved to be poor, but some are dilligent but no jobs available, no people give them chance, the corruption is so bad, and they have many children to feed. Then, you blame them for having many children. If you do that, God will also rebuke you as He did to me couple of months ago. He rebuked me, "Alvin, if you see a new-born baby, be rejoice for I, God Almighty, has not given up on men. No matter they betray and provoke me, I will keep giving new life in hope they will come to the knowledge of the Truth. I am the One who give them life, not you, Alvin, who are you O, man to talk back to God? I just silent. Fear of the Lord surrounded me.

I am talking to those who claimed themselves as Christians, claimed to be ambassador of Christ. Listen to what Bible said, "What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead" (James 2:14-17). Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27).

My friends, you spent much money for your pets, your bought them house, shirts, ribbons, and pet's food that even more expensive than human food. You care your cats and dogs more than human being. You treat your dogs as children but you treat human as dogs. Something wrong with your brain, my friends. Have you ever considered yourself just lucky? You could also be in that position, could you not?

Why some rich and others poor?

It is God's will to give you wealth and the other poverty or vice versa. Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all (Proverbs 22:2). Do you think God is unjust by making other poor and other rich? Listen to what Jesus said to the rich young man, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me." But when the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he had great wealth. Then Jesus said to his disciples, "I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Do you think Jesus is lying when He said that 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? Just ask yourself, do you love your money or God more? Do you serve God or mammon?

There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire. But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony (Luke 16:19-25).

This is the warning for the rich man who has no love toward the poor, you are in danger of hellfire. If you think it is joking, you can go on thinking like that, but at least I have warned you. I know some of you don't like to be rebuked or warned or reproof that's nobody care about you. Consider it as my care and my love toward you to bring you back to the knowledge of the Truth. Again, you can mock me with whatever you like for Bible has warned me, "Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you (Proverbs 9:8). My friends, if you still insist that those mega-churches with Prosperity Gospel and their super-apostles is the "true gospel" and mine is a hard teaching, who can accept it (John 6:60)? Just wait and see. God will open the book on the Great White Throne Judgment and He will make you remember this day. Just think about it.

Many of us treat the church as den of thieves, not house of prayer. We make money there, we make connection there, we make business there. We think that church is the most profitable bank, we give 10% of our income and God will make it prosper, hundred-fold. Do you think God is your wealth manager? Do you think God will make you prosper even though He know your hands are full of blood? Bible said, "Wash and make yourself clean. Take your evil deeds out of My sight! Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widom (Isaiah 1:16-17).

You are slapped in the face by your prosperity teachers but you keep smiling. They are not shepherd, but butcher. They want your money not your salvation. They use your itching ears to satisfy you and they make you think that you are already in heaven. Yes, my friends, you are in "heaven", imaginary heaven, heaven that never exist, created by "cut" and "paste" the Bible, remove all those things who talk about sins and hell. Your Bible is just Psalm 23 and Malachi 3:10 and Revelation 21. Nice, is it not?

Some of us treat the fellowship with God as tradition, obligation, giving tithe and offering, attending every Sunday fellowship in hope that God can be mocked by your pretending. You are so funny, my friends. God has this whole universe, what is your money, your gold, your silver, your precious stone for Him? Is He poor? Is He need something from your wealth?

What He wants is your repented heart, you with all your heart worship Him and He will bless you. He loves you and created you with His wisdom, you are special, nobody in the world has the same apperance like you, even the twins. You are fearfully and wonderfully made by Him. He even sent His begotten Son, Jesus Christ, died on the cross for your sins. He just want to have fellowship with men again that has been broken because of our sins.

In garden of Eden, everyday God came to Adam and Eve and had fellowship with them. God took care everything for them, He created everything perfect for them, but still they rebeled. Men wanted to be king for themselves, they didn't want to submit to God. Do you blame our situation to Adam and Eve? Look at yourself, don't you do the same thing? Do you not rebel against God? We are rebellious nations, but still, He keep calling us again and again, in hope godly sorrow work to repentance to salvation come into our heart and we start love Him with all our heart, our mind, our soul, and our strength.

Is it too much for you to give you all your heart and start loving Him and His other creations, your neighbours, your enemies? Is it too much for you when He ask you to love unconditionally, even though He has loved you will all His heart, He has blessed you during your ignorance and He will bless you more if you come back home and if you love your neighbours.

Repent and start doing right or drop your "Christian" status and perish. God is a jealous God. He is jealous when He sees you put your trust on idols which are: your money, your business, your wealth more than Him. He is jealous when somebody take His glory for Him. He is the One who created you but you worship idols and baals made from stones, golds, woods, etc. Is it not stupid, my friends? You want prosperity, you want happiness, you want pleasure then you make gods for them. God of wealth, god of prosperity, etc with their own names: Tsai Shen Yeh (China), Dedun (Egypt), Pluto (Roman), Ganesh (India), etc. These gods make you work like hell and never get satisfied.

Do you know the reason why you keep working and working without rest but still unsatisfied? It happened you are under God's curse. Listen to what the Bible said, "To the man who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God (Ecclesiates 2:26). Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless (Ecclesiates 5:10). Moreover, when God gives any man wealth and possessions, and enables him to enjoy them, to accept his lot and be happy in his work --- this is a gift of God (Ecclesiates 5:19).

Do you know that it is God's gift? How many of you who actually rich and have everything, but still, want to be richer and richer? You are under God's curse, my friends. By the way, what is your money for? Will you bring your money to death? Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs (Ecclesiastes 5:15).

People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs (1 Timothy 6:9-10). But godliness with contentment is great gain (1 Timothy 6:6).

Do you worship the Almighty God, whose Presence filled this Universe or you worship mammon who can be contained into this little idols, who can't speak nor breath? Some people never see the devil with their on eyes, can you see now, my friends? Open your eyes and see.

So, if those gold, wood and stones are idols who can't give wealth, how the way of Almighty God in giving you wealth and riches? Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver (2 Corinthians 9:6-7).

This is the way of God Almighty, the True and Living God. You must give before you receive, not you receive a lot then give very few, in that case, it is called stingy, greedy. And God hates those things. I have seen many rich people who love God so much, they give out all their wealth for the poor, but God keep blessing them, they become richer and richer. I am not surprise for that, for God's promise is applied.

God wants the rich to help the poor. He also said, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul (Mark 8:36)? Bible again and again said about equality. Read how the early churches behaved in Acts 4:32 "All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had."

Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. Then there will be equality, as it is written: "He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little did not have too little (2 Corinthians 8:13-15)."

God wants you to share and help the poor so that there might be equality. If you can't do it, ask God to give you more wisdom, otherwise your serving of mammon make camel to be easier to go through the eye of a needly than you enter the kingdom of God.

Jesus gave us parables of the sheep and goats (Matthew 25:34-40) "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen (1 John 4:20). My friends, are you a liar? Do you really love God? Do you really love your neighbours? He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God (Proverbs 14:31).

Do you know that those poor people are tool from God to bless you even more? Do you know that whatever you did for them, you did for Jesus? Do you know that God is not unjust, He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them (Hebrews 6:10).

My friends, why it is difficult for you to help those who are in needy? Bible said, "Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patinent in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality (Romans 12:9-13).

I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich (2 Corinthians 8:8-9). My last question: Is money your god? Do you have love toward people? God bless you