God doesnt mind us having riches..
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills...
He just want the riches to “own” us...
The rich man didnt end up in Hell because he was rich...Luke 16:20-31
otherwise Jesus would have ended his story right there...
“There was a certain rich man and he died and was “buried”
In Luke 17: 18-29 Jesus knew that the young man was unwilling to part with his riches because he loved his riches more than God...
Mary, Martha, and their brother Lazarus had land and wealth, but Jesus never told them to give everything away...
Why not ???
Because their riches did not “own” them...
John 12:1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Jhn 12:2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
Jhn 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Jhn 12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
Jhn 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? John 12:1-5